{"id":186596,"date":"2025-06-15T14:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186596\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:52:10","slug":"chinas-silver-economy-heats-up-as-government-boosts-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186596\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s &#8216;silver economy&#8217; heats up as government boosts subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SHANGHAI &#8212; Companies in China are jostling for a slice of the country&#8217;s &#8220;silver economy,&#8221; riding on the government\u00a0stimulus aimed at boosting consumption among the\u00a0growing aging population.<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">China&#8217;s population age\u00a065 and above is expected to increase from 220 million in 2025 to 400 million in 2050, according to Chen Wei, a professor at the Center for Population and Development Studies at Renmin University. This group\u00a0will account for 30.7% of the total population, which is projected to fall by about 100 million\u00a0to 1.31 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHANGHAI &#8212; Companies in China are jostling for a slice of the country&#8217;s &#8220;silver economy,&#8221; riding on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[61301,51,76541,1700,1234,76542,13949,6914,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-186596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-boosts","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-chinas","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-heats","14":"tag-silver","15":"tag-subsidies","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114687950427380033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}