CHONGQING, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) — Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality has requested banks to supply elderly-friendly cell functions that may perceive the native vernacular as a part of a raft of measures to assist older residents adapt to the digital period.
The Chongqing authorities has carried out 39 insurance policies to decrease the brink of digital applied sciences for older residents in areas together with metropolis transportation, medical care and cultural actions, the town’s improvement and reform fee stated Sunday.
One of many insurance policies encourages city-level banks to improve their apps to know the vernacular pronunciation of aged customers who’ve bother typing on their cell telephones. Banking retailers should not decline money, nonetheless broadly utilized by the aged who lack cell transaction expertise.
Massive hospitals are required to open devoted channels for aged sufferers with out digital well being codes, whereas public transit stations and sports activities and cultural venues should additionally retain home windows for money transactions or ticket purchases on the spot.
By the top of 2019, Chongqing had greater than 6.4 million residents aged 60 and above, accounting for 20.6 p.c of the town’s inhabitants.
It’s among the many Chinese language cities that has adopted measures in response to the State Council plan to assist the aged use good applied sciences, as banks, hospitals and the general public transport system transfer extra providers on-line, particularly within the post-epidemic period when contactless providers are favored.
In December, the jap Chinese language metropolis of Shanghai handed a regulation calling on public service suppliers to respect the habits of the aged and retain conventional strategies of public service.