Hubei built 2,010 nursing homes with a total of 294,700 beds for the elderly in 2023, according to a press conference on July 24, 2024.
Statistics show that Hubei had 13.78 million people aged 60 and above by the end of 2023, accounting for 23.6 percent of the province's total population. And the people aged 65 and above reached 9.89 million, representing 16.9 percent of the province's total population.
In 2023, the province built 100 new street, village and town-based complexes for elderly care service, upgraded 200 rural mutual-aid centers, and added 34 medical-nursing combined institutions.
In addition, a total of 23,092 community nursing institutions and facilities were set up in the year, bringing 213,600 nursing beds.(en.hubei.gov.cn by Ruan Xinqi)