摘要
积极应对人口老龄化是我国重要的国家战略,事关国家发展全局与亿万百姓福祉,对促进社会和谐稳定、经济可持续发展和维护社会公平正义具有重要意义.本文总结了我国在应对人口老龄化方面取得的一系列进展,在老龄化程度持续加深、区域差异日益显著、人口预期寿命进一步延长、老年人口素质不断提升以及新兴技术发展的新形势下,我国面临社会经济发展不均衡、人口负增长加剧老龄化进程、老年人群长寿不健康、健康服务体系服务尚不健全、老年"数字鸿沟"等新的挑战.研究提出我国在应对人口老龄化方面的关键举措,包括构建生育友好型支持体系、健全健康服务体系、推进社会养老服务体系高质量发展、推动以健康老龄化为导向的社会保障体系改革、构建"老有所为"支持体系、推进老年健康产业高质量发展,以及推动工程科技助力老年服务与产品创新,打造一个更加友好的社会环境.
Abstract
Actively responding to population aging,as an important national strategy of China,has a bearing on the overall situation of national development and the well-being of hundreds of millions of people,and is of great significance in promoting social harmony and stability,sustainable economic development,and the maintenance of social equity and justice.China has made a series of progress in coping with population aging.However,under the new situation of continuous deepening of the degree of aging,increasingly significant regional differences,further extension of the life expectancy of the population,continuous improvement of the quality of the elderly population,and development of emerging technologies,China is still faced with new challenges such as unbalanced socio-economic development,negative population growth aggravating the aging process,unhealthy longevity of the elderly population,lack of a sound health care service system,and the "digital divide" among the elderly.In the future,China needs to make further efforts to cope with population aging,including building a birth-friendly support system,improving the health service system,promoting the high-quality development of the social service system for the elderly,pushing forward the reform of the social security system oriented to healthy aging,building a support system for "active aging",pushing forward the high-quality development of the elderly health industry,and promoting engineering science and technology to help innovate services and products for the elderly,and creating a more friendly social environment.