The Power of Time Flow: Dongying’s Time Banking as a Bridge between Social Governance Innovation and Elderly Care

Qianyi Zhang; Wenhu Xu; Yimeng Peng; Gong Chen

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The Power of Time Flow: Dongying’s Time Banking as a Bridge between Social Governance Innovation and Elderly Care

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Qianyi Zhang¹, Wenhu Xu¹, Yimeng Peng², Gong Chen¹^{, *}

¹Institute of Population Research, Peking University, Beijing, China

²Yanching Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

^*Corresponding author. Email: chengong@pku.edu.cn

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Gong Chen

Available Online 18 March 2025.

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Keywords: Social Governance Innovation; Time Bank; Mutual Aid Elderly Care
Abstract: This paper explores the practical significance of time banks in innovating social governance. Through mechanisms of time saving and exchange, time banks build community mutual-aid networks, addressing gaps in traditional elderly care models and shifting from single-entity dominance to multi-entity collaborative governance. They enhance community autonomy, optimize resource allocation, and improve elderly individuals’ social engagement and well-being. The study analyzes the roles and challenges of time banks from the perspectives of governance mechanisms, service models, and social impacts, offering recommendations for broader implementation. The findings indicate that time banks supplement traditional elderly care systems and promote a shift in social governance from “management” to “co-governance.”
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Culture, Design and Social Development (CDSD 2024)
Series: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date: 18 March 2025
ISBN: 978-2-38476-380-1
ISSN: 2352-5398
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Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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