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Feedback on question 1 from Secretariat of United Nations 1 Please provide current information on the human rights situation of older people including challenges and threats that may hinder the full realization of human rights of older people; Protection of the Rights and Interests of Older people in China China is a big country with a large population of older people. In 2009, the Chinese elderly population aged 60 and above reached 167.14 million, accounting for 12.5% of the total population. Elderly population aged 65 years old and above reached 113.09 million, accounting for 8.5% of the total population. It is predicted that by the mid of this century, the population of Chinese older people will exceed 400 million, accounting for more than 30% of total population. The large number of elderly population, fast development of population aging, unbalanced regional development, and aging before getting rich is always the main features of population aging in China. Chinese nation has the tradition of respecting and caring for older people. Chinese Government has always believed that older people are valuable wealth of society and creators, successors and disseminators of material and spiritual civilization of the country, so Chinese government has always regarded older people as an important part of society and thus taken a series of effective measures to protect their legitimate rights and interests, and actively promoted and advocated social virtues of respecting, caring for and helping them and respected and advocated and encouraged them to participate in social development in various ways. Firstly, establish national mechanisms to protect the rights and interests of older people Chinese government adheres to party