There are universities for the aged in Dongcheng District and Xicheng District of Beijing.
Since the establishment of Beijing Dongcheng University for the Aged, with the attention and leadership of all previous district committees and governments, after more than 30 years of development, the school has formed a teaching pattern of 10 majors, supplemented by western painting, photography, literature and history, and 100 classes (including various professional classes) every year, and the number of students in school has remained above 4,700.
There are 4/kloc-0 classes in Xicheng District. Students 1400 people. Professional courses include: regular script, official script, seal script, cursive script and other calligraphy courses. Flowers and birds, landscapes, sketches and other paintings. There are also English, photography, computer, craft making and literature classes.
The functions of universities for the aged are as follows:
The university for the aged is the product of the times and the need to adapt to the aging society, build a lifelong learning society and a harmonious society. With the improvement of living and medical conditions, the pace of aging in China has accelerated, and China's population has entered an aging stage. Facing the aging society, the party, government and school leaders attach great importance to the work of the elderly.
The report of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China regards "forming a learning society with all-people learning and lifelong learning, and promoting people's all-round development" as one of the goals of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and the elderly should continue to achieve the goal of all-round development. University for the aged is an important means to achieve this goal and the most appropriate embodiment of "lifelong learning".
Universities for the aged are geared to the elderly. But education for the aged is the youngest education. Therefore, there is still a lack of experience and theoretical summary in running universities for the elderly. We should constantly explore and conscientiously sum up to improve our understanding of the regularity of running universities for the elderly. Universities for the aged should make full use of various conditions to help their old friends "increase their knowledge, enrich their lives, cultivate their sentiments and improve their health", so that the old people in Tsinghua can learn, have fun and do something.
Official Website of Dongcheng University for the Aged-school profile
Baidu encyclopedia-Beijing Xicheng district university of senior citizen