Qingdao - Great Place for Old People
This is great. Just substitute Florida for Qingdao.
Qingdao, Xiamen and Dalian have been recently selected as ideal places for old people to live, the People's Daily overseas edition reported.This is considered a good place? Where are the other 968 old people sleeping?
“The environment here is good, people are nice and the sanitary conditions are satisfactory. I have been living here for one month now and I'm very happy living here,” said Wang Shusong. 78-year-old Wang and his wife Li Zhenyu are currently staying in the Nanshan Nursing Home for senior citizens in Qingdao, Shandong Province. The couple thought that Nanshan Nursing Home is a good place for old people to stay.
In 2002, Qingdao municipal government issued a program on social welfare facilities, the first of its kind in China. It included the service industry about caring for the old into the city's development program. Local government issued a series of preferential policies to promote the development of old-age industry. By the end of July this year, 107 service institutions were established for the old people in Qingdao. The bedspace provided for the old reaches 9,180 units. Every one thousand old people in Qingdao have 32 bedspace on average.
Since 2006, Qingdao municipal government has issued a welfare lottery that amounts to 30 million yuan a year. The fund collected from this lottery is used to subsidize the senior citizens in the city. Benefiting from the welfare lottery system, all the old people in Qingdao who are over 80 years old can receive a subsidy of 150 yuan every year. They can spend the money for a regular health check. About 180,000 old people in the city benefit from such system.For those who are not familiar with the conversion rate, 150 yuan is around $19. China is poor, but 150 yuan per year isn't going to buy more than a sack of rice. It may cover the cost of a health check, but it isn't going to cover fixing you if they find something - which at 80, they will.
Xiamen has a mild climate. The summer is not too hot and the winter is not too cold. Although Xiamen is not a large city, its infrastructure is fairly good. It is very convenient for people to travel around and find a place to eat, live or to play. Xiamen municipal government has attached great importance to the protection of its ecological environment. Over the past five years, local government has allocated a total of 6.06 billion yuan on environmental protection projects.Xiamen is a nice city. I wrote about it earlier on as the place the government is planning to move the land fill or whatever people were protesting about.
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