Introduction: In 2026, the local two sessions will all come to an end, and the national two sessions will kick off. As an important year to actively respond to population aging, what new actions will be taken in the fields of elderly care services and silver economy in various regions this year?

The editor has sorted out the key points of elderly care policies in the 2026 government work reports of 31 provinces across the country. Let's take a look together!

Guangdong

Develop the silver economy, provide more elderly friendly products and services that provide a sense of purpose, happiness, and security for the elderly, and better meet the diverse needs of elderly people of different ages

Implement a long-term care insurance system, improve the care system for elderly people with disabilities and dementia, and provide basic living care and closely related medical care guarantees for severely disabled individuals

Improve the supply level of elderly care services. Developing elderly meal assistance services according to local conditions

We have provided vocational skills training for over 50000 on-the-job elderly care workers, new employees of elderly care institutions, and social workers who are willing to engage in elderly care work throughout the province. We have also added over 1500 certified elderly care workers, bringing the total number of certified elderly care workers in the province to over 4500. Standardize the recognition of vocational skill levels, improve incentive and guarantee mechanisms, and prioritize supporting the promotion of on-the-job nursing staff to higher levels

Continuously carry out home and community medical and elderly care integrated services, support medical and health institutions with conditions to expand their medical and elderly care integrated functions, and achieve a medical and elderly care integrated service rate of over 40% for people aged 65 and above, better meeting the needs of elderly people for medical and elderly care integrated services

Build a high-quality living circle that is livable, suitable for business and tourism, and expand cooperation in fields such as healthcare and elderly care

Do a good job in the "five major articles" of pension finance and other finance, and support insurance institutions to strengthen product innovation in the field of pension and other areas

Explore the potential of basic consumption such as elderly care and stimulate the vitality of improved consumption such as healthcare and nursing

Establish a sound hierarchical and classified social assistance system, provide service guarantees for elderly people living alone, and strengthen care and assistance for empty nest elderly and other groups

Optimize the pattern of home-based elderly care as the mainstay, institutional elderly care as a supplement, and the combination of medical and elderly care, promote the construction of county, town, and village elderly care service networks, build elderly friendly communities, and encourage social capital to establish elderly care institutions and rehabilitation nursing institutions

Improve the supply of primary healthcare services and the level of mutual recognition and sharing of inspection and testing results. Provide continuous health management services for key populations such as elderly people aged 65 and above, with a grassroots standardized management service rate of over 66% for elderly people aged 65 and above

Beijing

Intensify policy support for health, elderly care and other service consumption, and accelerate the cultivation of new growth points for service consumption

Strengthen the "one elderly, one primary" service, implement relevant laws and regulations on elderly care services, and improve the long-term care insurance system

Establish 20 new regional elderly care service centers and add 5000 new family elderly care beds

Comprehensively investigate and rectify fire hazards in important locations such as nursing homes

Strengthen elderly medicine, palliative care and other services, promote the inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese medicine, and enhance the construction of traditional Chinese medicine's ability to treat diseases before they occur

Tianjin

Promote the improvement of long-term care insurance, enrich the supply of chain scale services such as elderly care and health, and better meet the diverse improvement needs of home furnishings

Enhance the service level of "one elderly and one primary", vigorously develop the silver economy, improve supporting policies and measures for elderly care service reform, implement the issuance of elderly care service consumption subsidies to moderately disabled elderly people, increase nursing beds, and increase the supply of inclusive childcare services

Hebei

Promote the construction of long-term care insurance system

Cultivate 400 standardized township elderly care service centers

Shanxi

Optimize the supply of basic elderly care services, promote the aging friendly and barrier free renovation of public facilities

Implement long-term care insurance system and carry out rehabilitation nursing expansion and improvement project

Create a national demonstration elderly friendly community

Upgrade and expand 50 community elderly care projects and township (street) regional elderly care service centers

Strengthen care and assistance for disadvantaged groups such as elderly people living alone

Inner Mongolia

Step by step and phased promotion of the construction of long-term care insurance system

Implement the optimization project of the basic elderly care service system. Improve and enhance the three-tier elderly care service network in 20 counties and villages, provide elderly care service consumption subsidies to moderately or above disabled elderly people, improve the quality of the "15 minute" home-based elderly care service circle, and build 7000 family elderly care beds

Improve the basic pension standards for urban and rural residents' pension insurance

Promote the expansion and improvement of consumption of health, elderly care and other services, cultivate and strengthen new growth points such as smart homes

Liaoning

Strengthen the "one old, one small" service. Upgrade more than 20 public elderly care institutions and create 80 national demonstration elderly friendly communities. Expand the coverage of long-term care insurance system in an orderly manner. Provide elderly care service consumption subsidies to elderly people with moderate to severe disabilities

Continue to develop elderly meal assistance services; Promote the application of smart security systems in elderly care institutions; Upgrade more than 20 public elderly care institutions, add or renovate 2000 beds, and improve the service quality of elderly care institutions; Improve the educational conditions of 50 senior universities at or above the county level

Strengthen the standardized construction of geriatric medicine departments in comprehensive hospitals, and establish geriatric medicine departments in all public comprehensive hospitals at or above the second level in the province

Cultivating new consumption hotspots such as silver haired economy

Jilin

Expand the coverage of long-term care insurance and increase the number of universal elderly care beds by 2000

Vigorously developing the silver economy, creating service scenarios such as traditional Chinese medicine health care and universal health care, and expanding elderly care consumption that meets residents' income levels

Construct 10 county-level comprehensive elderly care service centers, 60 township regional elderly care service centers, and 120 village level elderly care service stations

Heilongjiang

Build a three-level elderly care service network with county-level overall guidance, township (street) regional linkage, and village (community) convenience nearby

Shanghai

Further expand service consumption and develop the silver haired economy

Optimize elderly care services. Deepen the reform of elderly care services, renovate 2000 beds for cognitive impairment care, add 200 elderly care service stations at home, support community elderly care service institutions to provide diversified services such as meal assistance, bathing assistance, and medical assistance, strengthen the professional training of elderly care staff, and actively promote the aging friendly transformation of home environments

Jiangsu

Accelerate the development of a multi-level and multi pillar pension insurance system

Strengthen the prevention and treatment of geriatric diseases

Accelerate the improvement of the elderly care service network, implement rehabilitation nursing expansion and upgrading projects, expand the supply of palliative care services, promote the further expansion and quality improvement of long-term care insurance, and further improve the care system for disabled and dementia elderly

Zhejiang

Accelerate the development of new types of consumption such as silver hair economy, and establish the brand of "Zhe Li Lai Consumption"

Implement the special action plan for elderly health services and the expansion and improvement project for rehabilitation nursing, promote aging friendly and barrier free transformation, and vigorously develop home community medical and elderly care integrated services

Organize 1000 sessions of renowned traditional Chinese medicine services to benefit the elderly, promote health and wellness, and achieve full coverage in all cities and counties

Include severely disabled (severely demented) individuals in long-term care insurance coverage, with more than 230000 beneficiaries

Add 10000 nursing staff with dual certification for elderly care and emergency rescue. The accident insurance for the elderly over 70 years old with registered residence registration is fully covered. 5000 cases of intelligent bionic upper and lower limb technology assistive devices adapted for people with disabilities

30000 new degrees from senior universities (schools) will be added, and 100 new courses on elderly education such as artificial intelligence and health care will be developed

Anhui

Accelerate the development of a multi-level and multi pillar pension insurance system, and implement a long-term care insurance system

Develop integrated medical and elderly care services, strengthen the construction of nursing beds in elderly care institutions, and add 110 community embedded elderly care service institutions and 750 rural happy homes

Promote the construction of home-based elderly care service platforms, strengthen the care and support for individuals living alone, with disabilities, and dementia

Develop and strengthen new types of consumption such as silver haired economy and traditional Chinese medicine health care, and cultivate more than 30 integrated development clusters of commerce, culture, tourism, and sports exhibition

Fujian

Continue to raise the minimum standard for basic pension for urban and rural residents, implement the rehabilitation nursing expansion and improvement project, promote the integration of medical care and elderly care, implement long-term care insurance, develop home-based, community based, and institutional elderly care services, and continue to explore the "four inseparable" mutual aid elderly care model

Strengthen the construction of the elderly care system, cultivate and strengthen the life service industry such as healthy elderly care

Accelerate the development of smart healthcare and smart elderly care

Improve urban living environment, strengthen the construction of barrier free and aging friendly facilities

Strengthen social assistance and improve the service guarantee system for groups such as empty nest elderly

Jiangxi

Promote the high-quality and efficient development of life service industries such as elderly care, and focus on introducing and cultivating leading platform enterprises

Enhance the capacity of elderly care services, promote qualified secondary and above hospitals to equip elderly care facilities, build and renovate more than 50 regional center nursing homes, and improve home-based elderly care services

Establish a sound hierarchical and classified social assistance system, strengthen care and assistance for elderly people living alone and those with disabilities and dementia difficulties

Strive to achieve full coverage of long-term care insurance for employed personnel

Shandong

Continue to increase the basic pension for urban and rural residents and promote the expansion of long-term care insurance coverage

Efforts will be made to enhance the adaptability of consumer goods supply and demand, expand the supply of high-quality goods and services, and strengthen Shandong's characteristic products such as health care services and anti-aging products

Establish a comprehensive elderly care service network covering both urban and rural areas, implement a subsidy program for disabled elderly care services, add 150 embedded elderly care service institutions in communities, cultivate 100 elderly care service centers in towns and streets, and add 3000 beds for cognitive impairment care

Improve the mechanism for visiting and caring for elderly people with special difficulties, and increase the supply of services such as meal assistance, cleaning assistance, walking assistance, medical assistance, and home care

Implement the action to promote the integration of medical and elderly care, and add 50 fully licensed medical and elderly care institutions

Henan

Establish a sound care system for elderly people with disabilities and dementia, and promote long-term care insurance

Carry out the action of improving service consumption quality and benefiting the people, actively develop consumer industries such as elderly care, cultivate a batch of high-quality consumer goods, and enhance the adaptability of consumer goods supply and demand

Deepen the reform in the field of elderly care and run a high-quality university for the elderly

Improve the three-level elderly care service network covering urban and rural areas, develop embedded community elderly care, rural home-based elderly care, and village level mutual aid elderly care services, and strengthen the construction of elderly care meal assistance

Hubei

Strengthen elderly care services. We will focus on optimizing a diversified elderly care service system that is based on home care, supported by communities, professionally supported by institutions, and combines medical care with elderly care. We will pragmatically explore rural elderly care service models, gradually promote the aging friendly and barrier free transformation of public facilities, actively promote the long-term care insurance system, and accelerate the construction of an elderly friendly society

Vigorously expand new consumption spaces for services such as big health, new cultural tourism, and intelligence, and actively cultivate new growth points for consumption such as the silver haired economy

Hunan

Developing the silver economy

Continuously promote the expansion and improvement of basic elderly care and medical services

Expand inclusive elderly care services and promote the construction of county and rural elderly care service networks

Strengthen the service and care for elderly people living alone, disabled, dementia, and other groups, and build a number of elderly cognitive impairment care friendly communities and "time guardian" beds

Guangxi

Develop new consumer industries such as smart homes and AI terminals, cultivate characteristic business models such as longevity and health preservation, travel and elderly care, and develop consumption forms such as sharing economy and silver hair economy

Promote the management model of "online networking+offline grid" for elderly care services, social assistance, etc., and promote the reform experience of "village level elderly care service stations+elderly care coordinators"

Strengthen care and protection for empty nest elderly, and enhance standardized health management for the elderly

Promote the long-term care insurance system

Exploring the training of elderly care workers

Hainan

Expand the supply of high-quality goods and services, promote the expansion and improvement of health and wellness consumption, and support the development of the silver haired economy

Actively respond to the aging population, fully implement the long-term care insurance system, provide consumption subsidies for elderly care services for those with moderate to severe disabilities, promote the improvement and expansion of home-based and community-based elderly care services, and promote the "building hub and connecting stations into families" model

Five major articles on promoting pension finance and other financial services

Chongqing

Developing the silver economy, upgrading traditional service consumption such as elderly care, and tapping into the growth potential of ecological health and wellness

Promote the integration of medical care and elderly care, improve the long-term care insurance system, expand the supply of rehabilitation and palliative care services, and optimize the supply of medical and elderly care services

Strengthen care services for empty nest elderly

Vigorously develop community-based home-based elderly care services, initiate the reform of inclusive elderly care services, implement care projects for disabled and dementia elderly people, and strengthen aging friendly transformation

Sichuan

Developing the silver economy

Building an age friendly society. Strengthen the construction of the elderly care service system and promote the coordinated development of home-based, community based, and institutional elderly care services. Strengthen care services for elderly people with disabilities and dementia, and promote the expansion and improvement of rehabilitation nursing. Implement a long-term care insurance system. Strengthen comprehensive supervision of elderly care services. Deeply carry out the 'Tianfu Silver Age Action'

Cultivate business entities and expand consumption growth in areas such as healthcare and elderly care

Guizhou

Vigorously developing the silver economy, launching a number of themed consumption scenes such as traditional Chinese medicine cultural night markets, and cultivating more consumption growth points

Actively promote the long-term care insurance system. Pilot the implementation of unaccompanied care services. Steadily and orderly promote the implementation of supporting policies for the gradual delay of the statutory retirement age reform

Expand the supply of inclusive elderly care services, provide consumption subsidies for elderly care services to elderly people with moderate disabilities or above, and expand pilot programs for mutual assistance elderly care services in rural areas

Increase investment in the field of inclusive elderly care

Strengthen care and assistance for empty nest elderly, and provide care services for severely disabled individuals

Enhance the capacity of elderly care services, renovate and upgrade 25 standardized elderly care institutions, and provide home-based community institution services for 20000 elderly people with special difficulties

Yunnan

Provide universal elderly care services. Coordinate the integration of medical and elderly care services with the construction of medical consortia. Implement the elderly health promotion action and improve the urban and rural elderly care service network. Cultivate elderly care service operators and promote the development of silver haired economy

Accelerate the construction of long-term care insurance system, establish long-term care insurance system in no less than 7 states (cities), covering more than 3 million people

Deeply promote urban renewal and actively build elderly friendly cities

Implement a pension consumption subsidy project for elderly people with moderate to severe disabilities, and conduct a capacity assessment of no less than 150000 elderly people

Shaanxi

Implement the subsidy policy for elderly care service consumption and explore the development of living and elderly care

Support the successful hosting of characteristic brand exhibitions such as the Xi'an International Elderly Care Industry Expo, and strengthen the exhibition economy

Carry out elderly friendly transformation for families with special difficulties, improve the level of embedded elderly care services in the community, and perfect the care service system for empty nest elderly

Gansu

Deeply tap into the potential of elderly care employment

Formulate and issue implementation opinions for the high-quality development of the elderly care service industry, and build a positive interactive pattern of career driven industry and industry supported industry

Strengthen the construction of elderly care service facilities in old residential areas and rural areas

Realize full coverage of cooperation between medical and elderly care institutions

Implement the policy of subsidizing the consumption of elderly care services for elderly people with moderate to severe disabilities

Utilize idle resources to transform and construct 100 township comprehensive elderly care service centers

Implement a free cataract restoration project for 10000 elderly people

Complete the barrier free renovation of 5000 households with severely disabled individuals and construct 20 provincial-level demonstration centers for day care services for disabled individuals

Qinghai

Expand the supply and demand industry chain of "Qinghai Good Goods" and unleash the consumption potential of silver hair and other products

Build the "Qinghai Lake No.1" and "Chaidamu No.1" integrated ecological landscape highways for transportation and tourism, and increase the operation of silver tourism special trains

Implement the rehabilitation nursing expansion and improvement project, promote the long-term care insurance system, support the construction of 100 rural elderly care service facilities, and achieve full coverage of elderly meal assistance services in urban communities

Steadily implementing the gradual reform of delaying the statutory retirement age

Strengthen dynamic monitoring and precise assistance of social assistance, and improve the service guarantee system for empty nest elderly

Ningxia

Implementing the Action to Improve Service Consumption Quality and Benefit the People, Supporting the Development of Silver Hair Economy and Healthy Consumption

Promote the strengthening and expansion of strategic emerging industries, implement industrial innovation projects, and continuously improve the scale and efficiency of the health and elderly care industry

Coordinate and manage elderly education, guide and standardize the development of private education, and optimize lifelong learning public services

Strengthen the ability of medical care to benefit the people, and provide free influenza vaccination for elderly people aged 60 and above

Coordinate the promotion of aging friendly renovation and barrier free environment construction

Establish an autonomous region level coordinated system for long-term care insurance under the "Eight Unifications" initiative, implement the action of promoting the integration of medical care and elderly care, and expand and improve rehabilitation nursing, to strengthen care and assistance for elderly people living alone

Xinjiang

Increase the proportion of government investment in livelihood related areas and increase public investment in the field of inclusive elderly care

Accelerate the construction of a three-level elderly care service network in counties and villages, implement aging friendly transformation, strengthen care and assistance for disadvantaged groups such as elderly people living alone and those with disabilities and dementia, improve the service guarantee system for empty nest elderly, and establish a hierarchical and classified social assistance system

Solidly carry out ten practical measures for people's livelihood, such as caring for the elderly, settling down and benefiting the people, etc

Xizang

Strengthen the guarantee of elderly care services and establish a long-term care insurance system

Effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the elderly