Preface

Silver Economy strives to develop wellness industry, to improve the human capital of laboring people and labor productivity, as well as to spur economy by science. It also hammers at perfecting the asset structure of aged people, enhancing their purchasing power, so as to boost economy by consumption. It is necessary to vigorously develop health-care supporting programs imbedded with the aged people's body and mental health while incorporated with the family, the community, the organization and the city that the aged belong to. It is necessary to build capacity for people to lead a healthy life and to supplementhome-based health care for aged people. Home-based health-care system is a combination of family supporting and social provision for the aged. Internationally there have been a series of conventions that appeal for building Age-friendly cities and helping people back to in-home healthcare from outside-home health-care, so as to reinforce filial love and lower the costs of social provision. It is necessary for China to refer to the experience and take lessons of the successes and failures from that, in order to, firstly, take good care of the presentaged people; secondly, change the situation of“aging before getting rich and prepared”, enhance national competitiveness and embrace the third wave of human wealth, by improvingpeople's health in their all-life cycle, developing the imbeddedmode of health-care service for the aged, maintaining demographic dividends and adjusting elder labor force.

This research, based on the“correlation of welfare and GDP per capita”, aims to explore the normalcy of the aging tendency of population and the corresponding strategies from both macro and micro economic perspectives. The main contents are as follows:the first chapter makes an inquiry to the connotation and the denotation of Silver Economy, its economic features and development strategies, as well as the major measures taken by and the experience of developed countries. The second chapter explores the features of China's aging tendency of population, its economic and social influence, while outlining the development index of China's Silver Economy and its development strategies and action plans. The third chapter makes a probe into the imbedded mode of heath-care service for aged people, the demand for and the supply of the health-care service for the aged, and the demand for and the supply of its financial service. The fourth chapter studies the health-care service system, the Public-Private-Partnership mode of health-care system（Partner-ship）, the responsibility of government and the development of social service（Public）, the development of health-care service for the aged sustained by social enterprises（Private）, the construction of social organizations and health-care service system（Society）. The fifth chapter analyzes the international consensus and typical examples of other countries.

This research is part of the“China's Development Report on the Aging Society and Retirement Security”and the Silver Economy Index Outline and subsidized by the National Social Science Fund, the Liberal Arts Development Funds of Tsinghua University, and the Culture Inheritance Fund of Tsinghua University. It alsoreceived help from other colleges, governments, enterprises and overseas partners. I'd like to express my gratitude to them all.

Yang Yansui in Tsinghua University

May 1st,2017