Fan Yang, associate professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, China Institute for Urban Governance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests are mainly on social gerontology and social welfare policy.

1. Introduction. 2. Urbanization and depression of rural older population in China. 3. Theoretical framework and data sources. 4. Urbanization and depression of Chinese rural older population in the social ecological perspective. 5. Localization of foreign community-based care models in urbanizing China. 6. Locally developed initiatives to contain elderly depression in urbanizing China. 7. Conclusion: Advocating for urbanization policies that address depression in older population.

As China has undergone rapid urbanization and population aging in the past few decades, improving the welfare of older people in rural areas has become an ever more pressing issue. This title is the first book-length work to examine the influence of urbanization on the mental health of China's older population outside the city.