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29 September 2009, Volume 33 Issue 5

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Sixty-years of Population of New China

Yuan Xin, Wu Cangping, Li Jianmin, Wang Guixin, Gui Shixun

2009, 33(5):  42-67. 

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1st October 2009 is the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China.Over the last 60 years,particularly since the reform and opening up,China has completed the historical transition of population reproduction,becoming demographically a developed country.In order to celebrate the achievements of China’s population and demography,this issue of Population and Development Forum has invited some distinguished Chinese demographers to summarize and discuss the major changes and progress that have been made in population and demography in China over the 60 years.Professor Wu Cangping examines the irreplaceable position of demography as a discipline in China.Professor Li Jianmin highlights the unique pattern of China’s demographic transition in the context of changing population policy.Professor Wang Guixin looks at changing patterns of migration in China in the context of socio-economic changes in China.Professor Gui Shixun explores China’s old-age security system in the context of rapid aging in China.Finally Professor Yuan Xin calls for both theoretical and empirical researches on the unprecedented demographic challenges in China now and future.

Regional Disparity in Changes of Healthy Life Expectancy of Chinese Elderly: Expansion or Compression?

Zhang Wenjuan, Du Peng

2009, 33(5):  68-76. 

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Using data form sampling survey of population in 1994 and 2004,this paper conducted the analysis on Activity of Daily Living of elderly population,as well as the trend of expansion in Healthy Life Expectancy of Chinese elderly with Sullivan method in east,middle and west China.The research results indicated that the ADL of the elderly in east China are higher than that of the elderly in middle and west regions,and the proportion of the elderly with ADL impairment in 2004 are higher than that in 1994.The results of comparison on the HLE of the elderly in 2004 and 1994 shows that the increasing speed of HLE are higher than that of LE in east older females,which matches the pattern of morbidity compression.However,the pattern of morbidity expansion can provide better description for the extending of HLE of older males in east areas as well as the elderly in middle and west China.