據(jù)官方媒體新華社報道，中國國家主席習近平在一次高層領(lǐng)導(dǎo)會議上談到了人口老齡化問題，稱政府應(yīng)該加大對老齡事業(yè)的投入。

“我們的政策措施、工作基礎(chǔ)、體制機制等還存在明顯不足，同廣大老年人過上幸福晚年生活的期盼差距較大?！毙氯A社援引習近平上周五的講話稱。

2012年，中國勞動適齡人口十年來首次下降。作為全世界人口最多的大國，中國也可能成為首個未富先老的國家。

到2050年，中國將迎來人口高峰，總?cè)丝谶_到約14.5億。屆時每三人就有一人年逾60，但贍養(yǎng)他們的適齡勞動者卻逐漸減少。

上周五，習近平向中共中央政治局領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人表示，中國在全球老年人口數(shù)量最多，老齡化速度最快，應(yīng)對人口老齡化“任務(wù)最重”。

新華社援引習近平講話稱：“滿足數(shù)量龐大的老年群眾的多方面需求、妥善解決人口老齡化帶來的社會問題，事關(guān)國家發(fā)展全局，事關(guān)百姓福祉……”

不少分析師預(yù)計中國的中期經(jīng)濟增長前景不妙，人口老齡化就是重要原因之一。

為了緩解老齡化對經(jīng)濟的壓力，中國政府在去年10月進一步放寬“獨生子女政策”，全面放開了二胎。 （財富中文網(wǎng)）

譯者：Pessy

審校：夏林

China should increase investment in care for the elderly, President Xi Jinping told a meeting of the country’s top leaders on its aging population, official Xinhua news agency reported.

“Our policies measures, work base, institutional mechanisms, and so forth are still deficient leading to a fairly large gap with the hope of the elderly to enjoy happiness later in life,” it quoted Xi as saying on last Friday.

For the first time in decades China’s working age population fell in 2012 and the world’s most populous nation could be the first country in the world to get old before it gets rich.

China’s population is set to peak at about 1.45 billion by 2050 when one in every three people is expected to be more than 60 years old, with a shrinking proportion of working adults to support them.

With the world’s largest elderly population and the fastest aging population, facing the problems was an “important responsibility,” Xi told the Communist Party’s powerful Politburo.

“Meeting the various needs of the huge elderly population and properly solving the social problems that an aging population brings are matters relating to the overall development of the country and welfare of the people,” Xinhua quoted Xi as saying.

China’s aging population is one of a handful of factors many analysts cite as underpinning expectations of a lower medium-term economic growth outlook.

In October, China announced the further relaxation of its “one-child policy” in an effort to alleviate demographic strains on the economy.