Sunday, October 24, 2004

News

Double Ninth Festival: With a bunch of flowers in hand, 102-year-old woman Ms. Liuhanshi celebrates the holiday with children and dozens of aged people on the Double Ninth Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month) in a community recreation room for the aged people in Shenyang City, northeast China's Liaoning Province. The Double Ninth Festival also named Festival for the Elderly.

Elderly's Day—our seniors want more care: As Chinese senior citizens celebrated the Double Ninth Festival, or "Elderly's Day," Friday, there is growing appeal that the elderly should be better taken care of.

Aging population in China is not fearful: The aging speed of China has been ranked the first in the world. Therewith, how do the old people, the society and the government cope with this situation?

'Bicycle Kingdom' Abolishes Bike Registration System: China's more than 1.3 billion people may directly ride their new bicycles from the store to the roads without first going to the police for registration.


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