China’s local governments are expanding efforts to attract older travelers with subsidies, land incentives and health-care services, seeking to turn the country’s growing ranks of retirees into a source of consumer spending and economic renewal.
The campaign targets so-called active seniors — newly retired, relatively healthy people with time to travel — as China’s aging population deepens and the country’s “silver economy” matures.
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