Getting older in China has gotten more difficult, as the one-child policy has left far fewer young people to take care of the growing ranks of the elderly.
Rudong County in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province is ground zero for analyzing the impact of the one-child policy, as a planned reduction in population growth started there earlier than anywhere else in China.
The ways in which the one-child policy has made life more difficult harder for the growing ranks of China’s older citizens is prominent in Rudong, and also visible in a recently released report on the country’s rural elderly.
According to the county authorities, Rudong County's population has aged 20 years ahead of the rest of China
