Aboard The ‘Silver Train’, China’s Retirees Do Their bit to Offset Trump’s Tiffs

Beijing Insists It Will Stand Firm in the Face of Donald Trump’s Tiffs on Chinese Goods. It has been trying to reassure Everyone That The Country Is Strong and The Economy Is Resilient Enough To Weather This Latest Storm.

But This Week, Chinese Officials Have Acknowledged The Potential For Economic Pain As A Result Of The Unfolding Trade War With The US.

One Option Policymakers Here is to Try to Increase Domestic Consumption to Make Up for Lost Export Revenue.

China has a Massive Population and, IF Those Start Buying More Stuff, Chinese Companies Won’t Have to Relly As Much Overseas.

A Key Target in this Endeavor Are Savings of Potentially Decades Of Savings.

Now The Government Wants Them to Spend Some Of It – Good Of The Country.

And Initiatives Like The “Silver Train” – What Are You Are Tailored Specifically To Older Travelers – Aim to Do Just That.

On Board The Star Express, The Cocktails Are Poured And The Karaoke Microphone Is Passed Around, As Retirees Party Through Through China’s South-Western Yunnan Province.

The Roast Goose is Being Devoured With Shots Of Baijiu, a Chinese White Spirit Alcohol.

“We Have Been Working Hard All These Years,” Says 66-Year-Old Daniel Ling, Who Is Traveling With A Group OR Semi-retired Friends.

“The Important Thing When We Reach This Age, Is The Right Thing to Do – And That Is Really Enjoy Life.”

The Initiative Hopes to Turn An Economic Problem Into An Economic Solution Giving Older People A fun Avenue to Spend More.

Families Aren’t Spender Enough Because They Don’t Feel Financially Safe – The Property Crisis has diminished Their Number One Asset: Their Home. And Growing Unemployment Start Potentially Made Their Job Less Secure.

Add to the mix an aging population and low birthes and the proportiones of retirees Grows Each year, Making It Harder for The Economy To Support Them.

But what retirees do is time on Their Hands and Money to Spend.

So now to be given more opportunities to splurge Special Trains Designed to the Sites to the Sites Netly Visit – Parts of the Country Fund AFIELD, WHICH NEIGIAL SHOT IN THE ARM.

“The Main places Where The Silver Trains Will Stop Struggling Economies,” Says Dr Huang Huang, A Research Associate From The China Tourism Academy Who has begs the potential impact of the Potential Impact.

“They Will Consume Various Products On The Trains, But After They Pull Into A Station, They Will Also Visit Tourist Attractions and Traditional Villages.”

In Baisha, The Travelers Stop By The Modest Street Stalls at The Bottom of Old, Two-Storey, Wooden Houses Built by The Local Naxi Ethnic Minority.

One of Them Approaches Vendor Selling Barbecued Strips Of Yak Meat. They look Tasty and She Buys A Bagful. The Vendor’s Husband, Who is Also at The Stall, says this business is only a year old and that they need outside customers to survive.

All Along This Street You Can Get Potatoes With Spicy Sauce, Lamb Skewers, Fresh Orange Juice and The Traditional Clothing of the Naxi People.

This is a region Where Incomes Are Low and Most Young People When They Reach Age Because There Are Age Any Jobs For Them.

It is also not an easy place to retirees to Reach, But These Silver Tains Make It Possible, With Easy Access to Boarding and Alighting, And With Staff To Help As Well As Extra Medical Support IF Required.

Shi Lili, 69, Whose Granddaught is the Traveling Spirit of Her Youth has been with HerSelf Has been with myself. Now I’m myself, I have my family? “

By the end of Last Year, 22% of China’s Population Were Over the Age of 60, Making Up More Than 310 Million People.

So, IF Only The Smallest Percentage of China’s retirees Take a Silver Train, It Can Still Millions of Millions of Ticket Sales. And China’s Railway Authorities Plan to Be Operating 100 Routes Within The Next Three Years.

Such Trips Alone Are Not Going To Fix China’s Massive Challenge With Spending Low Consumer. But Economists Would Say These Moves Are A Step In The Right Direction.

Older Citizens Now Have a Much Greater Desire to Travel to Previous Generations, Creating “Huge Potential”, According to Dr. Huang.

“Given That China’s Ageing Population Is Now The Long Run – Something What is Unlikely Reversed – We Should Find More Opportunities from This Rather Than Always Turning It Into A Challenge.”

Back on Board The Train, The Silver Adventurers Are Ready to Crash Out. And They Can Do So Knowing That Their Big Day Out – At Least Partly – For The Benefit of All.

Then it’s onto The Next Town.