{"id":6252,"date":"2024-04-16T14:02:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T14:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.140.144.153\/2024\/04\/16\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T14:02:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T14:02:44","slug":"china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"China struggles to care for ageing population after decades of one-child policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-responsive-container\" style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;\"><div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k2LDN0fT1eVyNbAt3Si\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With China set to have 400 million elderly people by 2035, authorities are trying to figure out how to take care of them. Family structures were transformed with the now defunct one-child policy. Even now, the birth rate continues to plummet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1076,1539],"tags":[4302,3722,191,4872],"class_list":["post-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-ageing","tag-care","tag-china","tag-one-child-policy","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>China struggles to care for ageing population after decades of one-child policy - GuardianTV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China struggles to care for ageing population after decades of one-child policy - GuardianTV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With China set to have 400 million elderly people by 2035, authorities are trying to figure out how to take care of them. Family structures were transformed with the now defunct one-child policy. Even now, the birth rate continues to plummet.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"GuardianTV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-16T14:02:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/tv.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/China-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"980\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"551\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Abiodun Ogundairo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Abiodun Ogundairo\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Abiodun Ogundairo\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1\"},\"headline\":\"China struggles to care for ageing population after decades of one-child policy\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-04-16T14:02:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":21,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/China-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ageing\",\"Care\",\"China\",\"one-child policy\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\",\"World\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\\\/\",\"name\":\"China struggles to care for ageing population after decades of one-child policy - GuardianTV\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/China-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-04-16T14:02:44+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/China-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/China-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy.jpg\",\"width\":980,\"height\":551},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"China struggles to care for ageing population after decades of one-child policy\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/\",\"name\":\"GuardianTV\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"GuardianTV\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":96,\"caption\":\"GuardianTV\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1\",\"name\":\"Abiodun Ogundairo\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/author\\\/abiodun\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"China struggles to care for ageing population after decades of one-child policy - GuardianTV","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"China struggles to care for ageing population after decades of one-child policy - GuardianTV","og_description":"With China set to have 400 million elderly people by 2035, authorities are trying to figure out how to take care of them. Family structures were transformed with the now defunct one-child policy. Even now, the birth rate continues to plummet.","og_url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/","og_site_name":"GuardianTV","article_published_time":"2024-04-16T14:02:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":980,"height":551,"url":"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/tv.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/China-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Abiodun Ogundairo","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Abiodun Ogundairo"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/"},"author":{"name":"Abiodun Ogundairo","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/person\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1"},"headline":"China struggles to care for ageing population after decades of one-child policy","datePublished":"2024-04-16T14:02:44+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/"},"wordCount":21,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/China-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy.jpg","keywords":["ageing","Care","China","one-child policy"],"articleSection":["News","World"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/","name":"China struggles to care for ageing population after decades of one-child policy - GuardianTV","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/China-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy.jpg","datePublished":"2024-04-16T14:02:44+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/China-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/China-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy.jpg","width":980,"height":551},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-struggles-to-care-for-ageing-population-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"China struggles to care for ageing population after decades of one-child policy"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#website","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/","name":"GuardianTV","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#organization","name":"GuardianTV","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/09\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/09\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png","width":600,"height":96,"caption":"GuardianTV"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/person\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1","name":"Abiodun Ogundairo","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/author\/abiodun\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}