‘Longevity city’, marker for China’s ageing future
4 hours ago People practising tai chi along a street in Rugao, China’s Jiangsu province. File/Agence France-Presse Gu Bin leans over a desk as he carefully adds strokes to the Chinese character for “fortune”, before signing off in a flourish with his age 104.
But the spry great-grandfather is five years younger than the oldest member of the community in Rugao, an eastern city home to more than 500 centenarians and which celebrates its elderly with pride, statues and subsidies.
Calligraphy is one of the many hobbies practised by Gu, who was already in his nineties when he taught himself to use the internet.
Thursday, 13 May 2021 08:02 AM MYT
Rugao is an eastern Chinese city home to more than 500 centenarians, which celebrates its elderly with pride, statues and subsidies. ― AFP pic via ETX Studio
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RUGAO (China), May 13 ― Gu Bin leans over a desk as he carefully adds strokes to the Chinese character for “fortune”, before signing off in a flourish with his age ― 104.
But the spry great-grandfather is five years younger than the oldest member of the community in Rugao, an eastern city home to more than 500 centenarians and which celebrates its elderly with pride, statues and subsidies.
City of centenarians points the way for China s ageing future
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12/05/2021 - 04:40 Decades of a one-child policy has built in a demographic challenge for China, with a low birth rate and the world s largest population of elderly to provide for WANG ZHAO AFP 6 min
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Gu Bin leans over a desk as he carefully adds strokes to the Chinese character for fortune , before signing off in a flourish with his age 104.
But the spry great-grandfather is five years younger than the oldest member of the community in Rugao, an eastern city home to more than 500 centenarians and which celebrates its elderly with pride, statues and subsidies.
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An older man watches TV at a nursing home in Rugao, China. | AFP-JIJI
AFP-JIJI May 12, 2021
Rugao, China – Gu Bin leans over a desk as he carefully adds strokes to the Chinese character for “fortune,” before signing off in a flourish with his age 104.
But the spry great-grandfather is five years younger than the oldest member of the community in Rugao, an eastern city home to more than 500 centenarians and which celebrates its older residents with pride, statues and subsidies.