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China vows to promote home care for elderly

China will aggressively develop support services for home care for the elderly over the next three years, given that those above 60 account for more than 11 percent of the 1.3 billion population. ...full story at china.org.cn

from china.org.cn on Tue, Jul 01 2008

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