Guizhou boosts high-quality elderly-care, child-care services

Southwest China's Guizhou province recently released an implementation plan to set goals, tasks and measures for developing high-quality elderly-care and child-care services.

According to the plan, by 2022, Guizhou's nursing beds are expected to account for 43 percent of the total at nursing institutions for the elderly, and each city and prefecture should establish at least one demonstration nursing institution for infants and children.

By 2025, nursing beds are expected to account for 50 percent of the total at nursing institutions for the elderly, and more than 60 percent of beds at urban nursing institutions should be run by market entities.

In addition, the plan states that nursing institutions for infants and children should cover all urban residential communities, policies and standards of infant and child care services should be completed, and services should be improved by 2025.

The plan has set 22 tasks involving the improvement of elderly-care and child-care service systems, development of inclusive elderly-care and child-care services, improvement of service quality at public nursing institutions, improvement of elderly and child care abilities of families, acceleration of nursing facility construction in urban residential communities, and improvement of elderly-care and child-care services in rural areas.

Guizhou will also improve government affairs services, establish a comprehensive supervision system and information disclosure system for elderly-care and child-care services, and complete an integrated disciplinary mechanism for dishonest behavior related to elderly-care and child-care services.