Short answer, why strengthen the construction of rural pension service system

It is to expand rural consumption, promote rural economic development needs to strengthen the construction of rural pension service system. To promote the development of social services for the elderly, it is necessary to integrate urban and rural areas, a reasonable and balanced allocation of resources, and gradually realize the equalization of basic services for the elderly in urban and rural areas. At present, China's urban elderly population is more concentrated, service resources are more abundant, the demand for services is more vigorous, basically formed a home-based, community-based, institutional support of the pattern of social services for the elderly, while the rural elderly service is a late start, the foundation is poor, the investment debt, the development of a serious lag. Under the influence of such factors as the shrinking size of rural families, the rising proportion of empty-nest families, and the aging of the labor force, China's rural elderly care services will face even greater pressures than those in cities and towns over a long period of time in the future, and the problem of farmers' old-age care will become a new social problem. Can properly solve the problem of rural pension services, as soon as possible to make up for the short board of rural pension services, not only about the success or failure of the response to population aging, but also related to the stability of rural reform and development.