A senior citizen touches a screen on a robot at the outpatient hall of a hospital in Beijing in this file photo. China’s elderly care service market has a huge room for development, and by 2030, the market is expected to be worth more than 20 trillion yuan (US$3.11 trillion), Shanghai Securities News reported yesterday. According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the scale of China’s elderly care market is predicted to exceed 5 trillion yuan by 2025, after the country’s most recent national census data showed people aged 60 or above accounted for 18.7 percent of the total population in 2020.SD-Agencies