Abstract
Based on the statistics of the fifth and sixth censuses in China, this paper, which focuses on the spatial distribution characteristics of aging population in China's mega cities, examines the distribution of aging in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Wuhan. In this paper, an Aging Degree Index and an Aging Population Mean Center have been used to analyze the spatial distribution characteristics and spatial variation trends of aging population in mega cities. According to the research, the spatial distribution of aging population shows a faster development tendency of suburbanization from two different perspectives: one tendency is centrifugal spread associated with seniors who are moving from the city center to outer suburb areas, and the other is center concentration where the seniors who lived in the outer suburb areas are moving towards the city center.
Highlights
In 2010, the proportion of people aged 60 and above was 13.26%, 2.93% higher than the 2000 census, of which those 65 years and older account for 8.87%, 1.91% higher than the 2000 census
The spatial boundary used for representing the administrative divisions of each city are provided by the planning bureau of local governments, and used to apply the Aging Population Mean Center (Wu, Mohamed, & Wang, 2011) to test the variation characteristics and tendency of aging population, so as to provide empirical support for the Chinese government to develop a policy to deal with the aging problems in mega cities, including elderly facilities planning, public space, transport planning, etc
Since the population statistics of China in 2010 have not been published, this paper only focuses on the acquirable population data aged over 65 to measure the aging level by using the Aging Degree Index
Summary
In 2010, the proportion of people aged 60 and above was 13.26%, 2.93% higher than the 2000 census, of which those 65 years and older account for 8.87%, 1.91% higher than the 2000 census. The main reason is that urban planning in China lags behind the pace of population aging To address this problem, our purpose is to examine the spatial distribution of characteristics associated with aging populations in cities. The spatial boundary used for representing the administrative divisions of each city are provided by the planning bureau of local governments, and used to apply the Aging Population Mean Center (Wu, Mohamed, & Wang, 2011) to test the variation characteristics and tendency of aging population, so as to provide empirical support for the Chinese government to develop a policy to deal with the aging problems in mega cities, including elderly facilities planning, public space, transport planning, etc
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