问答题 Life expectancy has soared in China, while fertility has plummeted due to strict birth control policies. In 2009 there were 167 million over-60s, about an eighth of the population. By 2050 there will be 480 million, while the number of young people will have fallen. Taking care of the old will not only be a big challenge for individual families, but also for the government. Write an essay with the title " How Should the Chinese Society Face the Aging Era" in no less than 200 words on the Answer Sheet.
【正确答案】正确答案: How Should the Chinese Society Face the Aging Era? The extension of human life expectancy is a great blessing. But, together with the declining fertility rates, it creates no less big challenges. At the end of the 20th century, China declared itself entering the "aging stage" and the aging population has been generating lots of negative impacts. The younger generations are to undertake the heavy burden of supporting the aged and China will undergo the severe lack of productive labor forces. Considering the incomplete aging care system, together with the inevitable trend of the aging era, strategies focusing on minimizing those negative influences should be more practical. One operable solution could be the introduction and improvement of a sound social security system and corporate investment into the aging infrastructure to effectively improve the current aging care situation. Besides, the support from enterprises would be a more direct and long-term beneficial approach to settle the problem. Compared with the government and the younger generations who might lack the ability to take care of all the elderly people, enterprise would possess more financial, material and human resources to provide adequate and advanced support to the aged. Therefore, it is more likely to establish public institutions, such as geracomiums, with complete facilities and professional medical care. As a matter of fact, investing in aging care could in turn be seen as a fulfillment of enterprises social responsibility, which would help to enhance the companies" social reputation. Such a virtuous cycle would result in long-term effects on the sustainable development of both aging care system and enterprises. The financial crisis has already been tagged the worst since the banking collapse of the 1930s. Eventually, the sense of crisis ends. As long as governments and enterprises become interventionist and try to contain the worst effects of the aging. That, too, will end.
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