China
- Women Are 4/5 of Chinese over Age 100
Editor:Leo Yin –
October 17, 2013
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Luo
Kaiming and Wu Guanfeng from south China's
Hainan Province
are awarded as a 'centenarian couple' in Wanning, a city in Hainan,
on October 16, 2013. [hinews.cn]
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Four-fifths
of over 54,000 living Chinese centenarians are women, with a 127-year-old Uygur
woman from northwest China
identified as the oldest person, according to statistics released by the
Geriatric Society of China (GSC) on October 16, 2013.
The
GSC said that there are a total of 54,166 centenarians living in China
(mainland) as of July 2013, including 9,505 men and 38,268 women.
Rural
centenarians outnumbered their urban counterparts, with about three-quarters or
more than 74 percent of centenarians living in the countryside.
Central
China's Hunan, southwest China's
Sichuan and Yunnan and east China's
Shandong provinces as well as northwest China's
Xinjiang and south China's Guangxi
Zhuang autonomous regions are home to China's
10 oldest centenarians, with an average age of 119.2 years.
The
10 oldest couples in China were found
in south China's Hainan, central China's
Henan, northeast China's
Liaoning and southeast China's
Fujian provinces and Shanghai
Municipality.
With a combined age of 213,
Ping Muhu and Zhang Xinniu, a married couple from Henan,
are the oldest living couple in the mainland.
(Source: Lanzhou
Evening News/edited and translated by womenofchina.cn)