On an early autumn afternoon at the Yanda Golden Age Health Care Center in Langfang, 82-year-old Zhang Guifen from Beijing is undergoing rehabilitation training accompanied by a caregiver. "I moved from Beijing to Langfang three years ago. The environment here is good, the services are attentive, and I can use Beijing medical insurance for treatment. It is also convenient for my children to visit me on weekends." Zhang Guifen's genuine experience vividly demonstrates the solid results of the city's efforts to承接 the relocation of elderly care functions from Beijing and Tianjin and to deepen cross-regional elderly care coordination. It is also a true reflection of how the municipal discipline inspection and supervision organs have used precise oversight to protect people's livelihood and well-being since the concentrated rectification campaign began.
The city has a permanent population of 5.469 million, with 1.109 million people aged 60 and above. The elderly population is large and their care needs are diverse. Leveraging its location adjacent to Beijing and Tianjin, the city's elderly care industry has developed notable cluster advantages. As of March 2026, the city had 69 elderly care institutions with 28,000 beds, housing 11,432 elderly residents, including 7,289 from Beijing and 121 from Tianjin. The number of elderly people from Beijing and Tianjin accommodated in institutional care ranks first in the province. Based on its location advantages and development conditions, the city has vigorously developed elderly care services and the elderly care industry, initially forming a development pattern of policy alignment, resource sharing, and service coordination with Beijing, and achieving notable results in actively promoting the coordinated development of elderly care services in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
Ensuring that elderly people enjoy a happy old age is a top concern for countless families. Since the concentrated rectification campaign began, the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision has focused on key areas such as the safety of elderly care institutions, management of elderly care service funds, quality of elderly care services, and protection of the rights and interests of the elderly. It has supervised and urged departments such as the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau to deepen the rectification of prominent problems in elderly care services, transforming the "wish list" of the elderly into a "responsibility list" for functional departments, and safeguarding the high-quality development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei elderly care service coordination with a strict tone and practical measures.
Institutions are the fundamental guarantee for improving service quality and the solid support for the long-term development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei elderly care coordination. Under the supervision and promotion of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, the city has taken a key step in building a law-based elderly care system. On May 1, 2026, the "Langfang City Elderly Care Institution Management Regulations" officially came into effect. As the first special local regulation on elderly care institutions at the prefecture-level city level in the province, it provides a strong legal foundation for standardized operation and refined services of elderly care institutions across the city. At the same time, the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau also issued the "List of Safety Production Risk Problems and Control Measures in the Civil Affairs Sector," and organized the revision of the "Compilation of Fire Safety Management Systems for Elderly Care Institutions in Langfang City" and the "Compilation of Food Safety Management Systems for Elderly Care Institutions in Langfang City," building a solid barrier for the safe operation and standardized development of elderly care services.
Elderly care service governance is not a solo performance by a single department but a chorus of coordinated efforts by multiple departments. To consolidate and tighten rectification responsibilities, the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision held a deployment meeting for concentrated rectification in the elderly care sector, clarifying territorial responsibilities and refining work measures. Through issuing reminder letters and conducting regular follow-up supervision, it established a weekly coordination mechanism with civil affairs departments, following up throughout the entire process of rectification progress, problem correction, and long-term mechanism building. The municipal government took the lead in organizing a promotion meeting on the rectification of prominent problems in elderly care services, pooling strong synergy for joint management and promoting the solid implementation and effective results of the special rectification.
Talent is the core support for improving the quality of elderly care services and coordinated development. In response to problems such as the imbalanced age structure of the city's elderly care nursing workforce, insufficient professional skills, and difficulties in recruiting workers for institutions, the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision provided proactive oversight, urging civil affairs departments to improve the cultivation, management, and incentive mechanisms for elderly care service talent, striving to build a professional elderly care service team and continuously consolidating the talent foundation for Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei elderly care coordinated development.
"Elderly care services concern thousands of households and are a livelihood answer sheet that must be well completed. We will use precise oversight to promote further upgrading of elderly care services, so that more elderly people from Beijing and Tianjin can enjoy a happy old age in Langfang." A responsible official from the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision stated that they will use strong oversight to promote all departments in making good use of location advantages, and with heart and soul make elderly care services more detailed, more practical, and warmer, building a demonstration zone for the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei elderly care services, so that every senior can live steadily and comfortably and enjoy their old age.