Guangzhou's "15th Five Year Plan" Heavy Announcement: Successfully Holding the China (Guangzhou) International Elderly Health Industry Expo
Author:(Guangzhou) EldExpo Time:2026-05-29 Reader:3

The full text of the "Outline of the Plan" is nearly 100000 words, with a total of 33 chapters, proposing the development goals of Guangzhou in the next five years: by 2030, the regional gross domestic product will reach 4.5 trillion yuan, the per capita regional gross domestic product will exceed 30000 US dollars, and it will take the lead in basically achieving socialist modernization. Looking ahead to 2035, the gross domestic product of Guangzhou will reach 6 trillion yuan, doubling from 2023.

The Outline of the Plan sets 29 main indicators in six aspects: economic development, technological innovation, opening up to the outside world, green and low-carbon development, people's well-being, and security guarantee. It plans for 9 major categories and nearly 600 key projects, with a total investment of over 3 trillion yuan, effectively supporting high-quality development with high-quality projects.

In Chapter 29, promoting high-quality population development, it is mentioned to build elderly friendly cities. Organize the China (Guangzhou) International Elderly Care and Health Industry Expo.

The complete description is as follows:

Building an elderly friendly city.

Implement the national strategy of actively responding to the aging population, continuously deepen the "big city big elderly care" model, and enhance the "broad style elderly care" brand.

Enhance the basic elderly care service supply system and improve the four level elderly care service network covering urban and rural areas. Optimize the forms of home-based, community-based, and institutional elderly care services, optimize the mechanism of home-based elderly care bed services, promote home-based aging adaptation, develop community embedded elderly care services, cultivate specialized, branded, and chain based community elderly care service institutions, and increase the supply of inclusive elderly care services.

Deepen the reform and development of elderly care services, and orderly promote the classification reform of elderly care institutions. Develop mutual aid elderly care services. Create a livable and elderly friendly environment, strengthen the aging friendly and barrier free renovation of public facilities, carry out the "Smart Elderly Assistance" campaign, promote the convenient handling of high-frequency elderly related matters and the easy-to-use service scenarios, develop comprehensive elderly services, and promote the construction of an elderly friendly society.

Continuously promote the construction of geriatric medicine and elderly friendly medical institutions, improve the elderly health service system such as rehabilitation nursing, long-term care, and palliative care, promote early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of elderly diseases such as dementia, deepen the integration of medical care and elderly care, improve the care system for disabled and dementia elderly people, consolidate the supply of nursing beds in elderly care institutions, and develop integrated medical and elderly care services.

Implement a long-term care insurance system and improve a unified comprehensive assessment system for the care needs of the elderly. Promote the professionalization of the elderly care service personnel team and improve the quality and efficiency of comprehensive supervision of elderly care services. Strengthen care and assistance for elderly people living alone and empty nesters.

Upgrade Guangzhou's comprehensive platform for elderly care services and create an intensive mall for elderly care services. Cultivate and strengthen new driving forces for the silver haired economy, strengthen the research and promotion of elderly friendly intelligent products such as nursing robots, wearable devices, and smart homes, expand new tracks in elderly care finance and anti-aging, build a provincial demonstration model for elderly care finance, and improve statistics on the silver haired economy.

Plan and construct several characteristic industrial parks, encourage the construction of elderly friendly living experience exhibition centers, and host the China (Guangzhou) International Elderly Care and Health Industry Expo.

Deepen cross-border elderly care cooperation and promote the standardization pilot of Nansha's cross-border elderly care service industry. Deeply carry out the "Silver Age Action" 154, actively develop elderly human resources, steadily implement the gradual extension of the statutory retirement age, and optimize age restriction policies in employment, social security, and other aspects.

Promote education for the elderly, expand the supply of elderly education resources, continue to run the Guangzhou branch of the National University for the Elderly, improve the elderly education support service system, and meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the elderly. Strengthen preferential treatment and rights protection for the elderly.