关键词: 养老事业, 养老产业, 政策机制, 协同发展, 福利治理

Abstract:

Improving policy mechanisms for the synergistic development of aging policy and the elderly care industry is an important measure to implement the national strategy of actively responding to population aging. Going beyond the theory of welfare provision， welfare governance theory emphasizes the joint participation of multiple actors in the reconstruction of the welfare system. Both “Aging Policy” and the “Elderly Care Industry” are unique concepts in the process of building China’s elderly care system. The former emphasizes government responsibility， while the latter focuses on market forces. An examination of the logic behind the generation of these concepts reveals that the synergistic development of aging policy and the elderly care industry is essentially a process of welfare governance. The requirement of welfare governance for multiple actors to jointly participate in reconstructing the welfare system implies the existence of policy domains targeting different policy objects internally， each with different types of policy mechanisms. Theoretically， welfare governance includes power domination mechanisms in the administrative domain， interest regulation mechanisms in the economic domain， and value influence mechanisms in the social domain. In practice， the difficulties faced by the synergistic development of aging policy and the elderly care industry essentially stem from the entanglement of multiple overlapping policy mechanisms across policy domains. In response， it is necessary to lead the restructuring of aging policy and the elderly care industry through welfare governance， including reconstructing composite policy domains， developing contingency-based policy mechanisms， and promoting mutual empowerment between social policy and industry. Strategically moving towards welfare governance requires optimizing top-level design， coordinating multiple objectives， cultivating a diverse ecosystem， innovating collaborative models， and emphasizing dynamic adaptation， thereby promoting the synergistic development of aging policy and the elderly care industry.

Key words: aging social policy, elderly care industry, policy mechanisms, synergistic development, welfare governance