The Chinese empty-nesters

Old people poses for photography in Hanyuan, Sichuan provice, south China on 21th March 2015. Liqiang Shi,(before, male,74) and Guangying Shen(female, 72), have 3 children and they come to see them only once per year. The Chinese population reached 1.3678 billion at the end of 2014, up 5.21 percent from one year earlier, according to official data from Statistical Communique on China's 2014 National Economic and Social Development published in Feb. Migrant workers, totaled 253 million, remained the chunk of the population who don't live in the places where their household registrations are kept. Faced with a poor response to the limited relaxation of China's one-child per couple policy that permits a second child in selected cases, Premier Li Keqiang today said further improvements will be considered to make it more appealing and ease the country's demographic cr (Photo by Jie Zhao/Corbis via Getty Images)