Free meals offered to rural senior residents in nursing home in China's Jiangxi

A staff member serves a meal to the elderly at a nursing home in Qianjin Village of Nanchang County in Nanchang City, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province, Oct. 6, 2019. A total of 103 elderly care service centers have been established so far in Nanchang County through joint efforts from local authorities, enterprises and public welfare funds, as a way to make meal services accessible to rural senior residents. Two free meals are offered a day to the elderly who are empty-nesters and live on the "Five Guarantees" (senior or disabled people unable to work and without a source of income are guaranteed food, clothing, medical care, housing and burial expenses). (Xinhua/Peng Zhaozhi)