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Elderly Welfare Policies and Structural Exclusion of Aged Peasants in Reform China

Lee, Hyeon Jung 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

Population aging has recently been an urgent social problem in China. Amid economic growth and increasing social demands, the Chinese government has implemented various welfare policies for the elderly to solve the problem of aging. Scholars have also actively discussed China's aging and welfare policies. Discussion has mostly focused on interpreting the government’s elderly welfare policies or examining urban cases. When dealing with aged peasants, researchers have tended to regard them as elderly residents in rural areas, different from cities in terms of living environments. However, treating aged peasants simply as elderly residents in the rural areas can limit the discussion of China's deep-rooted, urbanrural dual governing system and the long-standing structural exclusion of the aged peasants. To address this issue, while adopting the concept of aged peasants, this paper first outlines the present condition of population aging in China and the precarious states of aged peasants, and secondly reviews the government’s policies on the welfare of the elderly. And finally, it discusses the implications of China’s elderly welfare policies in view of the Chinese Communist Party’s urban-rural dual governance.

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