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China's ageing population

Watch China’s popular dance programme designed to keep country’s ageing population fit

Chloe Yang

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Retired civil servant Yu Jicheng has created the dance routine Happy Dancing to help China’s elderly stay fit. Yu teaches daily public dance classes of up to 500 people in the city of Jiamusi, in northeastern Heilongjiang province. The programme has proved popular among China’s square-dancing participants because of its unconventional moves.

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