Rural areas have always been sparsely populated, and the infrastructure and services are far inferior to those in towns and cities. The tap water used in many rural areas is now only a centralized water supply from village wells. But heating, sewage, gas, because the construction cost is too high, many farmers are not willing to pay the initial installation fee, and even can not afford to use. Not to mention the fact that big hospitals, like the first-class ones, are not built in remote rural areas.
Rural residents generally buy and sell essential agricultural products at very low prices because of their partial self-sufficiency and the fact that most commodities are basic commodities without excessive transportation, transaction, or sales costs. As a result, the cost of living is relatively low. Generally speaking, the rural elderly can have six or seven hundred dollars a month to live on, not to consider the issue of medical treatment of major diseases or children to buy a car or a house, you will be able to protect the basic life.
Most of the rural elderly, still immersed in the past to raise children to prevent old age thinking. But the reality is that they are helpless. The children were sent to the university to study, but the children did not come back to farm (of course, this is the hope of the elderly, everyone understands that life in the town is good). The children stayed in the city, and many people also rely on going to live with their children, but they don't know the place well and often encounter all kinds of embarrassment. Many old people are also despondent to return to their hometown.
The majority of the elderly now receive a basic pension of one or two hundred dollars a month from the urban and rural residents' pension insurance. If this is coupled with their own labor, planting cash crops or engaging in economic farming to obtain income, to maintain the old age life is not too much pressure. But when they become old and frail or sick and need medical care, they may need to be supported by their children.
Overall, the current basic pension system for urban workers is based on the principle of "pay more, get more" and "pay more, get more, get more" (including deemed contributions), which means that you need to pay for 30 to 40 years of pension insurance in order to receive a pension of 3,000 to 4,000 yuan. The state does not have a system designed for the elderly who do not pay pension insurance to pay employee pensions.