{"id":2933,"date":"2026-10-19T11:03:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2026-10-19T11:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:03:51","slug":"beijings-population-expected-to-become-super-aged-by-2035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2933","title":{"rendered":"Beijing&#8217;s population expected to become super-aged by 2035"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The Chinese capital Beijing is expected to become \u201csuper-aged\u201d by 2035, with around one-third \u200bof its population aged 60 and above, \u200cthe official Beijing Daily reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chinese policymakers have made <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/china-revs-up-fiscal-support-boost-births-2026-01-16\/\">population planning<\/a> a key part of the country\u2019s economic strategy, and \u200bthis year the government faces a \u200btotal potential cost of around 180 billion yuan to boost births, according to Reuters \u200bestimates.<\/p>\n<p>One in every three residents of the Chinese \u200bcapital will be aged 60 or above by 2035, the Beijing Daily reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing had 5.29 million \u200bpermanent residents aged 60 and above at the \u200bend of last year, almost one-quarter of its population, the \u200cnewspaper \u2060said.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s government is stepping up support for elderly residents, including raising the basic pension, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s population has been shrinking since \u200b2022 and \u200bis ageing \u2060rapidly, complicating government plans to boost domestic consumption and rein in debt, \u200bwith hundreds of millions of people \u200bset \u2060to leave the workforce at a time when pension budgets are already stretched.<\/p>\n<p>Demographers and economists argue \u2060that fewer \u200bchildren today could mean \u200bfewer households and slower consumption growth over time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese capital Beijing is expected to become \u201csuper-aged\u201d by 2035, with around one-third \u200bof its population aged 60 and above, \u200cthe official Beijing Daily reported. Chinese policymakers have made population planning a key part of the country\u2019s economic strategy, and \u200bthis year the government faces a \u200btotal potential cost of around 180 billion yuan to boost births, according to Reuters \u200bestimates. One in every three residents of the Chinese \u200bcapital will be aged 60 or above by 2035, the Beijing Daily reported on Saturday. Beijing had 5.29 million \u200bpermanent&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}