How does a local community help people in need?

While talking about China nowadays, what pops up into people’s minds might be its modern metropolises, such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, and etc., or coastal provinces that enjoy a more vibrant economy.

Yet, China is a nation with imbalanced development, where the vast western region, especially southwestern provinces remain far less developed. But through the support of governments at various levels, they are catching up, while there are still people in need of help for various reasons.

And local communities can play an important role here to help those in need. Let's take the Guanshanhu Community of Guiyang, capital city of southwestern Guizhou Province as an example and see how they make life easier for people living there.

Caring homes for seniors

Statistics shows senior people aging above 60 account for about 12.3% of the total 265,000 people living in Guanshanhu Community as of the end of 2016. There are more than 20 caring homes and daily care centers, either public ones or private ones that provide more than 1,000 beds.

The number does not look impressive, but considering China's traditional culture of respecting elders, which means seldom do families choose to send their old folks to caring homes. Hence, the percentage of a bed per 3 senior citizens is rather high.

The Guanshanhu Community Senior Care Center is a professional senior caring house, subsidized by the local government but led by a senior care enterprise, which comes equipped with modern health checks and medical treatment systems and personnel that cover an area of 200 mu, or some 130 thousand square meters, providing more than 300 ordinary beds for senior care, and another 120 beds for medical care.