it's main city hangzhou flourished as an economic and cultural hub until the 19th century. ty has recently become famous for ali baba, the world's largest online business firm. zhejang is also the first chinese province to become an aging society. in 1983 the number of its residents age 60 or over had reached 10.7% of the population. the figure for the city of happenshow is more than the national average. zhejiang quickly became a graying society as it became one of the first tone force chienda's one child per couple policy the population control system that started in 1979 and limits couples to having just one child except under very special circumstances. the one child policy has contributed to an aging of the population and created numerous social issues. the government is hoping that local community groups, common everywhere in socialist china, will help deal with the aging society. in the past these groups helped ensure safety and conducted welfare visits as a part of the socialist state. members used to be local leaders or came from the communist party. but these days