New Dimensions of the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly in China: An Extension from Basic to Comprehensive Rights and Interests Protection

YUAN Xin* & XU Jing**

Abstract: The protection of the rights and interests of the elderly is increasingly becoming a core element in advancing Chinese modernization, actively responding to population aging, and ensuring the living security and rights protection of the elderly. The existing policy and legal system for the elderly is continuously being perfected, with related laws, regulations, rules, and policy measures constantly improving. The standards and regulatory systems for the construction, operation, and development of the elderly care service system are becoming more robust, and the coverage of the protection of the rights and interests of the elderly is expanding rapidly. However, with the high-quality development of the economy and society, the deep transformation of social structure, form, culture, and institutions brings new challenges to the construction of the policy and legal system for the elderly. In the new era, the comprehensive rights and interests of the elderly, such as consumer rights, equal access to age-friendly products, information security protection, and social participation and development rights, need to be strengthened. Starting from the national strategy of actively responding to population aging, it is urgent to focus on the extended space of the protection of the rights and interests of the elderly in the new era, coordinate the development plans and institutional arrangements for the elderly cause, and construct and improve the policy and legal system for the elderly that is adapted to Chinese modernization.

Keywords: population aging · protection of the rights and interests of the elderly · policy and legal system for the elderly