Tianjin-based Time Light Care, a smart elderly care enterprise founded by Taiwanese entrepreneur Jing Ran, is leveraging Taiwan's long-term care expertise to serve China's growing elderly population. The company has developed a proprietary smart elderly care management platform, positioning its nursing homes as 'community-embedded, small-to-medium scale, high-quality care' facilities that allow seniors to stay in familiar surroundings while remaining close to family.
On the technology front, Time Light Care has introduced millimeter-wave radar monitors for completely bedridden residents to track breathing, pulse, and heartbeat in real time. Automatic alerts are sent to caregivers' phones in case of any abnormality. The company has also introduced accessible vehicles equipped with detachable automatic wheelchairs that go directly to the bedside, helping 'suspended seniors'—those who struggle to go downstairs due to the lack of elevators—to go out with dignity.
These innovations come as China's elderly population aged 60 and above reached 320 million by the end of 2025, a figure projected to exceed 400 million by 2035. The silver economy is expected to surpass 30 trillion yuan (about 4.41 trillion U.S. dollars). In February 2026, an executive meeting of the State Council proposed to promote the expansion and quality improvement of inclusive elderly care service supply, improving a tiered, categorized, inclusive, accessible, urban-rural covering, and sustainable elderly care service system. The series of measures outlined at the meeting charted the direction and identified priorities for better meeting the diverse and multi-level needs of hundreds of millions of elderly people.
'The mainland's policy support and market scale have created immense opportunities for innovation in senior care,' said Jing Ran, the company's representative, during an exclusive interview with China News Service. 'Having succeeded in starting our business here, we now hope to encourage more young people from Taiwan to come, explore, and develop their careers on the mainland.'
Time Light Care's approach reflects a broader trend of cross-strait collaboration in elderly care, combining Taiwan's experience with the mainland's vast market. The company's smart platform and technologies are designed to address the challenges of an aging society, offering scalable solutions that can be adopted by other facilities across the country.
