How many beds do national pension service agencies have?Ministry of Civil Affairs: 8.126 million as of the first quarter of this year

Cover Journalist Dai Rui

On September 1, the National New Office held the "Several Policies and Measures of the Pension Care Service Industry for Supporting and Supporting the Care Service Industry". Cover reporters learned from the hair dryer that as of the first quarter of 2022, the number of pension services and facilities across the country was 360,000, and the beds reached 8.126 million.

Li Yongxin, the head of the Ministry of Civil Affairs Service Department. Picture source: Guoxin Office

According to Li Yongxin, the person in charge of the Ministry of Civil Affairs's Pension Service Department, according to statistics, as of the end of 2021, the elderly 60 and above in my country reached 267 million, accounting for 18.9%of the total population. The elderly population is large, aging is fast, and the number of elderly groups such as elderly, disabled, live alone, and staying behind. They have both the rigid needs of long -term care of institutions and the eager expectations of the community home to conveniently enjoy socialized services. It is important and urgent to vigorously develop the pension service industry to meet the multi -level and diversified pension service needs of the elderly.

Li Yongxin pointed out that in the past three years, affected by the epidemic, some pension service agencies have been impacted. According to the survey, especially this year, the epidemics of many places have continued. The elderly service agencies in these places face more difficulties, and urgently need to cooperate with all aspects of forces to strengthen assistance and to spend difficulties together.

He said that on the basis of the national level introduced a series of policies and measures to help companies help the enterprise, this time, it has introduced the support measures for relief services for the pension service industry, which fully reflects the high emphasis on the protection of people's livelihood. Sexual promotion of the difficulties and problems facing the current elderly care service industry has also released positive signals to further support the development of the elderly service industry, which will help further boost confidence in the elderly service industry and accelerate the upgrading of pension services from all over the country, so as to effectively effective The supply of supply is to drive service needs to better meet the needs of the good life of the elderly.

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