Notice on Issuing the «Putuo District Silver Economy High-Quality Development Three-Year Action Plan (2025-2027)»
To all government departments, offices, bureaus, subdistrict offices, town governments, and relevant units:
To promote the coordinated development of elderly care services and the elderly care industry, and enhance the development capacity of the silver economy, the Putuo District Civil Affairs Bureau and Putuo District Development and Reform Commission have jointly formulated the «Putuo District Silver Economy High-Quality Development Three-Year Action Plan (2025-2027)», which is now issued for implementation.
Putuo District Silver Economy High-Quality Development Three-Year Action Plan (2025-2027)
To implement relevant national and municipal policies on developing the silver economy and improving elderly welfare, promote the coordinated development of elderly care services and the elderly care industry, and advance the construction of Putuo District’s silver economy «three zones and two centers», this action plan is formulated based on local conditions.
I. Phased Arrangements
2025: Build consensus, establish a sound institutional system for the silver economy, improve supportive policies, and create coordination mechanisms. Develop industrial platforms, attract leading enterprises, research and construct Putuo District Silver Economy Industrial Park, and enhance development capacity. Boost silver consumption, create elderly-friendly shopping centers, build high-quality aging-adaptation demonstration rooms, and develop diverse service formats.
2026: Promote enterprise clustering, improve upstream-downstream coordination in the silver industry, and optimize the overall layout of the Silver Economy Industrial Park. Strengthen investment promotion, guide and support various high-quality enterprises to establish operations in the district, and expand scale effects. Enhance technological innovation, create technology innovation platforms in elderly care services, pilot elderly care robots, and continue professional talent cultivation.
2027: Strengthen demonstration leadership, cultivate more leading and benchmark enterprises, and enhance radiation effects. Strengthen brand building, create nationally influential Putuo District silver economy brands. Summarize experiences and achievements, form standard systems, serve economic and social development, and improve people’s livelihoods.
II. Key Tasks
(1) Improve Elderly Care Service System, Create «Inclusive Elderly Care Homes»
1. Optimize Institutional Elderly Care Supply. Implement the Putuo District Elderly Care Facilities Layout Special Plan (2024-2035), optimize nursing home bed construction layout. Improve public nursing home operation mechanisms and basic care bed allocation systems, promote short-term residential services, enhance bed utilization efficiency. Advance nursing home standardization, upgrade existing basic care facilities, improve nursing home quality. Encourage state-owned and private capital to integrate and transform existing social resources, develop high-quality nursing homes and service brands.
2. Strengthen Community Elderly Care Network. Rely on public welfare projects to achieve balanced and accessible community elderly care facilities, realizing full district coverage of «15-minute elderly care service circles». Maintain stable growth in community elderly dining service locations, improve service quality. Enhance professional service levels, cultivate chain brands of community elderly care service institutions, promote development of professional day care centers, deepen elderly-friendly community construction. Integrate surrounding facilities and resources to provide «micro-daycare», «micro-dining» and other neighborhood «micro+» services.
3. Enhance Home-based Elderly Care Functions. Expand home care services, support development of specialized services like bathing assistance, medical accompaniment, and mobility support. Further develop community informal care systems, deepen programs like «Elder Companions Plan» and «Respect Our Elders Plan», achieve full coverage of community visits and care for childless, elderly, and solitary seniors. Explore and improve «family care beds», support seniors aging in familiar communities and home environments. Continue promoting «one-click» emergency call services, smart water meter installation for vulnerable seniors, strengthen home care for elderly. Explore mutual elderly care service incentive and evaluation mechanisms, encourage healthy seniors to help those in need.
4. Deepen Integrated Medical-Care System. Support qualified nursing homes to establish medical facilities. Promote «15-minute community medical-care integration service circles», pilot rehabilitation equipment community rental services, explore «cluster-style, integrated» medical-care integration service systems. Pilot medical accompaniment services, establish Putuo District «Inclusive Elderly Care» Medical Accompaniment Service Alliance, expand accompaniment personnel. Improve precision of long-term care services, meet diverse elderly long-term care needs.
5. Enrich Elderly Cultural Life. Enhance public cultural venues’ services for elderly, encourage various public cultural facilities to offer free or discounted access to seniors.