| There is a growing trend of ageing population in China. Since the number of empty nesters climb quickly, the problem of the lack of spiritual endowments for them has become increasingly significant. People are now paying more attention to solve this problem, not only because of its era value, but also the urgency based on the reality in our society. However, numerous obstacles are aggravating this problem: the diminution of the role that rural families play in offering spiritual endowments to the empty nesters, the inadequacy of the empty nesters’ spiritual self-enrichment, the shortage in supply of spiritual endowments from rural communities, and the vacancies of politics and regulations of spiritual endowments. The main countermeasures to resolve the lack of spiritual endowments are as follows: to promote the filial piety of offering both material and spiritual endowments, to construct community service system, to improve senior citizens’ abilities of spiritual self-enrichment, to build up diversified endowments for the silver population, to ameliorate laws and regulations concerning the endowment for the elderly, and to push forward the collaborative development of urbanization and the aged endowment. |
