Government’s Role in Meeting the Long-Term Care Needs in Developing Aging China: A Public-Private Partnership Pathway

China is encountering essential socio-demographic changes with respect to population aging and family structure transition. A case in point is long-term healthcare, especially to those less developed areas in Western and Central China. The increasing old population will assuredly place greater demands on the system of long-term care in China, but the magnitude of the problem has been the subject of some debate. Therefore, the main question is how to provide long-term care service in a smart way. Public-private partnership(PPP) is extending promptly as an alternative innovation for the provision of services by government. Through PPP government is able to make long-term contract with qualified private partner to deliver a good or service. Although private firms have been involved in public service delivery for a long time, the introduction of PPP in early 1990s established a mode of public service delivery that redefined the role of public and private sectors. This study is focusing on the practice of PPP in China. More specifically, the aims of the project