| Population aging is an irreversible social trend in China in the 21 st century.According to the results of the seventh national census,as of November 2020,the number of people aged 60 and over in China is 264 million,accounting for 18.7% of the total population,and the population over 65 years old is 190 million,accounting for13.5% of the total population.As of the end of 2020,there were 7.01 million registered elderly people over 60 years old in Chongqing,accounting for 21.87% of the total population.Elderly people over 65 years old has reached 5.47 million,accounting for17.8% of the total population.Chongqing has entered a new form of aging society.The severity of Chongqing’s population aging has severely restricted Chongqing’s economic and social development,and has brought severe challenges to family,society and government governance.Strengthening the research on the governance of aged society and exploring the innovative measures and paths in our city will help solve the continuous and severe problem of population aging.First of all,after reviewing and analyzing domestic and foreign scholars’ relevant research on the governance of aging society,this article finds that many scholars have put forward governance suggestions on the issue of population aging and have conducted relatively sufficient research from different aspects,but their overall understanding of the aging society and research results are still insufficient.Based on this,this article attempts to apply governance theory to the analysis of the aging society,and to define the concept of the governance of the aging society.It is pointed out that the “aging society” is a new social form that emerges with the ageing structure of the population,and its family structure,social life,cultural life,economic supply and demand,and political participation present new characteristics that are different from previous social forms.Secondly,this article combs the development history of the aging problem and the governance of the aging society from both the international and domestic aspects,understands the general approches and ideas of the international and domestic academia on the population aging and governance of aging society from a dynamic and sustainable perspective,which makes a sufficient basic preparations for the research.At the same time,this article analyzes the current situation of Chongqing’s governance of aging society through the investigation of Xiaoying Nursing Station,Jingkou Community Health Service Center,and Hekang Day Care Institutions in Shapingba District,Chongqing,and focuses on the division of functions of relevant departments of the Chongqing government,points out that there are still the following problems in the governance of the aging society in Chongqing:1,the responsibilities of governance bodies are not clear.The relationship between the rights and responsibilities of the relevant governing bodies of the aging society within the government is vague,and no governance synergy is formed;at the same time,the boundaries of rights and responsibilities between the government and other pluralistic governance bodies are not clear;2,the governance system is not smooth,which makes it difficult to break through the barriers to governance to a certain extent;3,governance policies are hysteretic.At present,Chongqing has not issued local laws and regulations related to elderly care services,and the regulations and policies are inadequate.At the same time,relevant national policies have been implemented slowly;4,the governance means are in shortage.The governance and control methods are single and the governance technology methods are behindhand.Finally,this article proposes countermeasures and suggestions to improve the governance of Chongqing’s aging society in terms of clarifying the main responsibility of governance,perfecting the governance system and mechanism,completing the governance policy system,and optimizing governance methods. |
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