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一 |     Editor's Note:
With China's population of seniors over 60 surpassing 300 million, ensuring a happy and fulfilling life for all seniors has become a pressing issue for both families and the nation. How can the new generation of seniors in China break away from traditional norms and embrace a different lifestyle, supported by AI technology, multiculturalism and an elder-friendly society? 
The series "Old Age, New Trends" explores emerging trends in the silver economy, creative social norms among senior citizens and innovative eldercare services. It examines the opportunities and challenges presented by an aging society, highlighting the diverse lifestyles of seniors and the booming eldercare industry in China. Beneath these new trends lies a reflection of Chinese modernization, which aims to provide more secure systems and dignified lives for its senior population.

    Chinese elderly tourists pose for a photo during a trip to Antarctica. Photo: Courtesy of Zhang XinyuanThe camera moves across ice and water of Greenland before settling on a group of travelers speaking Putonghua. Many are retired. They have come a long way from China to a place that, for much of their working lives, belonged more to maps and documentaries than to any realistic travel plan.
Polar journeys require money, good health and patience for long flights and itineraries that may change with the weather. Yet on ships bound for Antarctica, and tours reaching into the Arctic, retired teachers, doctors, researchers and business managers are becoming easier to find. 
After decades scheduled around work and family, they now possess something that was once just as scarce as money: uninterrupted time.
By the end of 2025, China had 323.38 million people aged 60 or above, accounting for 23 percent of its population, according to the Xinhua News Agency. Their incomes, health and family circumstances vary enormously, and polar travelers remain a small, relatively affluent group. Still, their choices bring one change into sharp focus: For some among this new generation of retirees, growing older no longer means simply drawing the boundaries of life inward. It may also be a chance to return to journeys postponed for decades.
Behind every such journey lies a practical calculation: Is the body ready? Is the expense manageable? Can family responsibilities be set aside long enough? The answers are reshaping both travel products and ideas about life after work. At the farthest reaches of the map, some Chinese retirees are asking a new question: With their careers behind them and years still ahead, where do they want to go next?
No longer waiting
In early 2025, 63-year-old He Man stood on a snow-covered slope at Port Charcot in Antarctica and looked back toward the sea. 
The Silver Endeavour, the ship that had brought her there, had shrunk to a white speck against the blue water. Penguins wandered nearby. "Standing there, I suddenly realized how small I was - and how small my problems were," she told the Global Times.
It was a journey He Man had postponed for most of her adult life. Before retiring, she was a deputy chief physician at the dental center of Shenzhen People's Hospital in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province. During her 38-year medical career, most days she got up at 6 am, arrived at the hospital around 7 and began seeing patients at 8. On busy days, patients queued up outside her consulting room and she could barely stop for a drink of water.
During the last 20 years of her career, she had no more than 15 days of annual leave each year. Once time was set aside for caring for elderly relatives and looking after her child, what remained was enough only for short trips. She had visited several countries in Europe and North America, but Antarctica remained beyond reach.
"Antarctica had always been a dream, but I never really dared to imagine going," she said. The possibility became real only after friends from university made the journey in 2023 and 2024 and encouraged her to follow. By then, she had retired at 60. More important than anything else, she said, was that her time was finally her own.
In October 2024, she booked a place on an expedition ship carrying about 200 passengers. She went with her husband, a neighboring couple and another couple with whom they often traveled, forming a group of six. 
The early-booking cruise fare exceeded 150,000 yuan ($22,250) per person. She and her husband later paid another 40,000 yuan each to upgrade their flights to business class.
"On a journey this long, at our age, we should treat ourselves well," she said. The flights between China and South America alone took more than 30 hours. The entire journey eventually lasted 41 days, combining an 11-day Antarctic cruise with visits to Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Chile. "Since we had flown so far, we wanted to see it all in one go."
The journey began with a lesson in polar uncertainty. To catch a period of calmer weather across the Drake Passage, the ship moved its scheduled departure from noon to 6 am. 
The couple reached the port in Chile before dawn after barely sleeping, only to learn that replenishment and repairs had taken longer than expected. The weather window closed, and the captain diverted through the Beagle Channel while waiting two days for conditions to improve.
The retired doctor did not regard the delay as time lost. Marine biologists, ornithologists, geologists and polar historians delivered lectures on board throughout the day, while passengers watched the fjords outside. "There were many older people on the ship. We had time, and nobody was really in a hurry," she said.
When she finally stepped onto the Antarctic snow, she said she was so overwhelmed that she wanted to cry. The trip did not remove the pressures waiting for her at home, but it changed the scale on which she viewed them. 
"When I feel stressed or upset now, I think of Antarctica," she said. "Life is only so long. Don't hold yourself too tightly. Let go when you should."
    Scenery of Antarctica Photo: Courtesy of Zhang XinyuanBeyond one journey
According to He Man, people aged 60 or above accounted for more than half of the passengers on board, while Chinese travelers also made up more than half. After returning home, some of the travelers from Shenzhen created a WeChat group, while others had already begun discussing their next destination.
Travel agencies specializing in expedition cruises have noticed the same pattern. Zhang Xinyuan, founder and CEO of Newayer Cruises, told the Global Times that the company entered the Antarctic market in 2008 and sent its first group the following year. It has since served approximately 6,000 travelers on trips to the Arctic and Antarctica. 
Among its customers, more than 65 percent are aged over 50, with those between 55 and 65 forming the largest group.
The makeup of that group has changed. Before 2020, Zhang said, most of the agency's polar customers were private business owners, senior executives and their family members. In recent years, the professional backgrounds of its customers have become more varied, with retired teachers, doctors, researchers and managers from public institutions increasingly represented. Retired women traveling alone have also become more visible.
Their journeys do not necessarily end after one polar voyage. Zhang once regarded Antarctica as a once-in-a-lifetime destination, but found that some customers continued on to the Arctic, the Galapagos Islands or wildlife reserves in Africa. 
She cited a recently retired couple who booked trips to both Antarctica and the Arctic. While still aboard the Arctic cruise, they asked to reserve places on a southern Africa itinerary planned for the following year.
Industry data suggest that this is a growing, though still expensive, segment of the travel market. During the 2024-25 Antarctic season, Chinese nationals accounted for 10 percent of passengers traveling with operators belonging to the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators, or IAATO, the second-largest share after the US. 
In the 2025-26 season, IAATO operators recorded 85,195 visitors who landed in Antarctica and another 27,217 cruise-only passengers. The association said China had seen the greatest post-pandemic increase among the main sources of Antarctic travelers. 
Data released by Tongcheng Travel offer a closer view of the high-end market. From January to September 2025, travelers aged between 50 and 70 accounted for more than 70 percent of users booking outbound luxury cruises on the platform. Among customers purchasing polar cruise products priced above 100,000 yuan, more than 90 percent were classified by the company as silver travelers.
As the customer base changes, the product is changing with it. Zhang said the longest flights, rather than the cruise itself, often present the greatest physical challenge. On board, travelers can decide whether to join shore landings, hikes or Zodiac cruises according to their physical fitness and health condition. 
At Newayer Cruises, travelers aged between 75 and 80 are generally asked to provide medical documentation and travel with a family member. Its group products include emergency medical and evacuation insurance, while tour leaders accompany passengers from departure.
The agency has also added Chinese-language services and meals familiar to Chinese passengers, while leaving more space in itineraries rather than packing each day with activities. Flexibility is needed for reasons beyond the traveler's own health. 
    A ship sails among icebergs in Antarctica. Photo: VCGThe Arctic can wait
Polar travel occupies the expensive outer edge of a much broader change in how older Chinese people spend their time. By the end of 2025, China had 323.38 million people aged 60 or above, accounting for 23 percent of the population. Those aged 65 or above numbered 223.65 million, or 15.9 percent. 
The National Bureau of Statistics noted that people aged between 60 and 64 made up a relatively large part of the older population, and that many were still healthy and participated in social activities. 
Travel is becoming one outlet for this age group. Data cited by the National Development and Reform Commission show that older travelers account for more than 20 percent of China's total tourist numbers. 
Du Peng, dean of the School of Population and Health and director of the Institute of Gerontology at Renmin University of China, noted in a CCTV interview that more than 20 million people would enter old age each year over the following decade. Compared with earlier generations, he said, many would be better educated, assess their own health more positively and use the internet with greater ease. 
Policy is beginning to respond to this more varied picture of old age. A State Council document on developing the silver economy calls for replacing rigid age restrictions on travel with assessments based more closely on health, while expanding travel insurance and strengthening consumer protection. 
Still, the retirees boarding polar ships should not be treated as a portrait of all 323 million older Chinese people. They are a relatively small group able to meet three demanding conditions at once: sufficient savings, good health and control over their time.
Therefore, what these polar travelers demonstrate is not that every retirement should become an expensive adventure. Rather, they show that later life is becoming less uniform: rest and care remain essential, but for some people, retirement may also contain study, creative work, new friendships and journeys once postponed by jobs and family obligations.
Back in Shenzhen, He Man now divides her Xiaohongshu (RedNote) posts between dental-health advice and notes from her travels. Antarctica has been crossed off the list, but the list itself continues to grow. 
She is considering a trip to see the animal migration in Africa and another to watch the aurora in Iceland. The Arctic is lower down on her list.
The Arctic can wait. This time, the delay is hers to decide.

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二 |     营造一种舒适、和谐、相互理解包容的居住氛围 在活力与安宁之间找到平衡点杭州市拱墅区一名志愿者对小区外围商铺进行每月评星。车辆行驶、邻里吵架、夜间施工、广场舞音乐……不少人都被这些噪声搅扰得不得安眠。

三 | 自2023年5月生态环境部启动试点工作以来，宁静小区建设覆盖面不断扩大，一批群众身边的噪声源得到有效治理。截至2025年底，全国已经建成宁静小区3272个，惠及居民超过240万户。让更多人“睡得安心”“现在小区安安静静，日常休息、生活都特别舒心。”在云南玉溪红塔区的平福园小区，72岁的居民施继坤谈及小区的变化，连连点赞。“以前旁边的室内运动场馆，击球声、哨声此起彼伏，白天根本不敢开窗，日常休息都受影响。”施继坤说，他家多年来一直饱受噪声困扰。对此，小区联合主管单位先后完成室内运动场馆的两轮隔音升级，墙体全面铺设吸音棉，靠小区一侧全部更换成双层中空隔音玻璃；同时，单独开辟场馆专属人行通道，从空间布局上实现客流与居民生活区完全分隔。这是各地探索宁静小区建设的案例之一。记者从生态环境部了解到，2025年，全国地级及以上城市受理噪声投诉约683万件，其中社会生活噪声占比高达73.2％。群众反映最多的是小区邻里噪声、设备异响、广场舞扰民等。这些“家门口”的烦心事，直接影响生活质量。生态环境部大气环境司噪声管理处副处长卢璐表示，希望通过宁静小区建设，把噪声治理关口往前移，从“被动处置”转向“源头预防”和“小区微治理”。“宁静小区不是说一点声音都没有。

四 | ”卢璐说，“我们的目的是营造一种舒适、和谐、相互理解包容的居住氛围，在活力与安宁之间找到平衡点，切实提升居民的生活质量。”云南玉溪将推进宁静小区建设纳入2026年全市年度民生实事清单；浙江杭州拱墅区绘出声环境功能区划分图，用不同颜色标注出5类声环境功能区域，并明确各区域昼夜噪声控制标准；广东深圳发布《宁静小区建设技术指南》，将进一步提升宁静小区覆盖率；山东威海系统推进宁静小区试点建设，建立噪声扰民调解与处理机制……全国多地迈出探索步伐。硬件与软件建设均需提升记者了解到，针对不同的噪声来源，各地从硬件、软件等方面发力，形成各具特色的建设模式。

五 | 在深圳，一些新建小区从规划设计阶段就融入宁静理念——实行人车分流，小区路面铺设透水降噪沥青，有效降低车辆行驶噪声；在临街围墙种植层次降噪绿篱带，楼栋之间种植绿篱围墙隔离带分隔活动区与居住区；安装噪声自动监测设备……一些老小区也因地制宜作出探索。杭州萧山区的汇宇花园把宁静小区建设和老旧小区改造捆在一起干。老旧电梯故障多、噪声大，电梯更新工程不仅消除安全隐患，更实现“静音式”运行。小区还实施多项“微改造”，加固松动的排水网格，检修更换老化公共设施等，从硬件上筑牢“静音屏障”。硬件问题之外，解决广场舞扰民、装修噪声等问题，则需要在共治共享上下功夫。

六 | 晚上8点半，威海凤林顺和社区广场上的大灯准时熄灭，刚刚还在随音乐舞动的人们各自散去。对长期以来的广场舞噪声问题，社区召开社区、物业、业委会、舞蹈队组成的四方议事会，议定以灯光为“哨”——天一黑，物业打开广场大灯，方便人们跳舞；一到8点半，大灯灭、小灯亮，舞蹈队自觉散场。凤林顺和社区居委会主任姜春燕说，社区建立多元主体协商机制，对噪声投诉快速响应、快速解决，化解邻里噪声矛盾纠纷。针对装修噪声，深圳宝安区一小区自主建立了一套动态管理机制：各业主的装修进展按照九大环节进行阶段划分，形成可视化装修噪声管理图谱，物业根据图谱对装修现场进行动态巡查。同时，要求装修施工全封闭作业，按照规定时间施工。

七 | 走出小区，周边商铺喇叭吆喝等噪声如何处理？杭州拱墅区祥符街道引导社区、经合社、商户、居民共同参与，组建“宁静商铺自治联盟”，对商户每月进行综合评分，连续两个月低于三星的商铺，将被劝退或清退。这一机制运行以来，五星商铺数量明显增加，经营噪声问题得到有效缓解。

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