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| The 2015 Summer Summit on Senior Citizen Welfare in China Held in Shanghai |
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From June 15th to 16th, the workshop of “Concepts and Practices in Social Service” & 2015 Summer Summit on Senior Citizen Welfare in China was held in Shanghai. Experts at the conference deliberated on the theme of “Concepts and Practices in Social Service” from the perspectives of senior citizen welfare, pensions industry, and their economic operation. Through “sharing, complementation, communication and cooperation” of wisdoms and ideas, they discussed the global senior citizen welfare, the development and future of the industry.
This year’s forum was co-organized by CWI and the Social Pension Work Committee of China Federation of Social Work. Zhen Bingliang, Deputy Director of the Department of Social Welfare and Charity Promotion of Ministry of Civil Affairs of China, Zhao Danni, Vice President of CWI and Secretary of the CWI Party Committee and Secretary General, Gao Julan, Inspector of Ministry of Civil Affairs of Shanghai, and Lv Bin, Director General of the Social Pension Work Committee of China Federation of Social Work and other leaders attended and addressed the opening ceremony. Experts of senior citizen welfare from China, Switzerland, the United States, and Japan as well as more than 350 practitioners in the industry from 13 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions of the country attended the forum.
In the two-day duration of the forum, 10 meticulously prepared in-depth reports were delivered, leading experts on senior citizen welfare from China, Switzerland, the United States, and Japan were invited to release the latest interpretation of pension policies, the most vivid business cases and cutting-edge research results from three levels of new layout, new explorations and new concepts. A special international salon was held, for which the famous TV presenter Luo Xin was invited as a guest host while 4 scholars and entrepreneurs with an eastern cultural background who had worked in senior citizen welfare services in China, Japan and the United States for years talked about the “Senior Citizen Welfare and Culture in the East”. Four venues of “Practice Workshop for Senior Citizen Welfare of Camphor Tree Bay” on rehabilitation, social work, and art therapy for the elderly were set up, providing professional service for participants to conduct group study and participatory communication. The forum also organized a visit to three well-known nursing institutions in Shanghai and small scale exhibitions and conferences for cooperation and communication within the industry of senior citizen welfare.
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