University for aged lets Chinese elderly enjoy retired life

Wang Yuzhen, vice president of the Anqiu elderly university, said there were only a few dozen students back in 2004 when the university was first established. Now there are nearly 2,000 students, among whom the oldest is 70.

The number of students at China's universities for the aged had exceeded 10.8 million by the end of 2019, according to the country's first report on education development of the elderly.

The report also showed that China had about 76,000 institutions providing education services for the elderly by the end of 2019.

"Aging is not terrible. What is terrible is to give up, stop stepping forward, and lose hope," students at the Anqiu elderly university often share with Wang.