More Universities for Elderly Students in ChinaChina now has 16,676 universities catering to the needs of the total 1.45 million students who believe they're never too old to learn.Senior citizens enrolled at these schools have a wide range of courses to choose from, such as computer science, art, psychology, home economics, history, poetry, and some other courses to help improve the quality of life, according to the Office of the China National Committee on Aging. North China's Hebei Province has over seven million people over 60 years old, which is 11 percent of the province's population. Hebei University for the Aged, established in 1987, now has over 1,900 students. The university curriculum lists more than 50 classes. Yang Quan, an 86-year-old woman, published a collection of her poems earlier this month and became the twelfth student in her school to see her poetry in print. During the past 13 years, over 40 delegations of senior citizens from the United States, Japan, Canada, Israel and other countries have visited the school. China's first university for the aged was established in September 1983 in the city of Jinan, east China's Shandong Province. |
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