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In recent years, elderly care professionals have become quite popular in the employment market, and the news like “The employment rate of elderly care graduates reached 100%” has repeatedly been the trending topic.

According to the data, the registered population of people aged 60 and above in Yiwu is 191,500, accounting for 21.01%, leading to a significant increasing in demand for elderly care service talents. The reporter found in the interview that there were still difficulties in elderly care, such as personnel recruitment and lacking of professionals. Xuan Zhong, chief of the Section of Undertakings for the Aged of the Bureau of Civil Affairs of Yiwu, said: “At present, the nursing staff in the elderly care industry remains to be consisted mainly of women between 40 and 60 years old. Concerning how to attract more young people to enter the “sunrise industry” of elderly care, Yiwu actively takes novel and practical measures in the ‘introduction, use, cultivation and retention’ of talents.”

Up to now, Yiwu has introduced more than 100 elderly care service talents under 35 years old.