The influence of aging population on China´s economy in the information society

Author

Hong, Lu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Int. Trade & Econ., Harbin Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Harbin, China

fYear

2010

fDate

16-18 April 2010

Firstpage

264

Lastpage

267

Abstract

China has entered aging society since 1999 and the aging process accelerated from the beginning of the 21st century. Aging has brought serious challenges to China, a developing country with low GDP. The rapid development in IT industry facilitated preparing and carrying out strategies to address the challenges and in the same time created opportunities to promote economic development in the aging society. It´s concluded that as long as China could realize the challenges and opportunities the aging society has on the economy, and adopt effective strategies, it´s possible to achieve the harmonious development of economy in the information society while population ages.

Keywords

demography; economics; information technology; China economy; IT industry; aging population; information society; rapid development; Accelerated aging; Diseases; Economic indicators; Industrial economics; Insurance; International trade; Pensions; Sampling methods; Senior citizens; Statistics; China´s economy; aging; component; formatting; information society; insert (key words); style; styling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Management and Engineering (ICIME), 2010 The 2nd IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5263-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5265-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIME.2010.5478053

Filename

5478053