我国老年教育事业是伴随着中国特色社会主义现代化建设,国家经济社会的大发展,改革开放大潮应运而生的。创办老年大学,发展老年教育,是应对我国人口老龄化严峻挑战,构建全民学习、终身学习的学习型社会的一项重要举措。老年大学已走过30年的发展历程,取得了令人瞩目的成就。据不完全统计,我国各级各类老年大学和老年学校已发展到近6万所,在校学员近700万人,参加远程老年教育学习的 The education for the aged in our country came along with the socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics, the great economic and social development of our country and the tide of reform and opening up. The establishment of an elder university and the development of education for the aged are an important measure to cope with the severe challenge of our country’s population aging and construct a learning society that is for all people to learn and for lifelong learning. Seniors have gone through 30 years of development and made remarkable achievements. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 60,000 elder universities and elder schools of all levels in our country have grown to nearly 700 million students in participating in distance geriatric education