When Work Stops the Fun Begins - China＇s Happy Seniors

• 作者: LU RUCAI
• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 政治法律
• 关键词: 中国 老年人 生活方式 旅游 娱乐
• 年，卷（期）: 2006,（9）
• 页码范围: 28-30
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: D669.6

摘要

<正>AT early morning and evening, groups of senior citizens doing their constitutional in the public squares and parks of China's small towns and big cities are a common sight The obvious enjoyment they take in ballroom dancing, toyji boxing and swordplay is representative of the generally happy state of mind of China's retired citizens - estimated at 143 million, or 10 percent of the population, at the end of 2005. Their physical and spiritual wellbeing is a matter of common