Visit any park in a Chinese city and one would see groups of older people practising centuries-old exercises like taiji or dancing to folk tunes.
The elderly in China are an active lot, with 60 per cent of them exercising five times or more a week and nearly 17 per cent doing so three to four times a week, a 2017 survey showed.
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