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Community in Beijing's Haidian District helps senior citizens become tech-savvier

A student volunteer from Beijing Foreign Studies University teaches senior residents to use a health-tracking app, introduced amid the COVID-19 outbreak, at a community activity center in Haidian District, Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 8, 2020. Since 2014, a community in Beijing's Haidian District has organized some 240 workshop events to help senior citizens become tech-savvier. So far, more than 6,000 elderly people have learned how to use digital devices and mastered digital-era skills such as online shopping and making hospital appointments with the help of student volunteers from 18 colleges and universities. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)

A student volunteer (C) from Beijing Foreign Studies University teaches as senior residents learn how to order food using mobile phone at a community activity center in Haidian District, Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 8, 2020. Since 2014, a community in Beijing's Haidian District has organized some 240 workshop events to help senior citizens become tech-savvier. So far, more than 6,000 elderly people have learned how to use digital devices and mastered digital-era skills such as online shopping and making hospital appointments with the help of student volunteers from 18 colleges and universities. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)

Huang Yicheng (R), a student volunteer from Beijing Foreign Studies University, demonstrates for a senior resident how to make a hospital appointment using mobile phone at a community activity center in Haidian District, Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 8, 2020. Since 2014, a community in Beijing's Haidian District has organized some 240 workshop events to help senior citizens become tech-savvier. So far, more than 6,000 elderly people have learned how to use digital devices and mastered digital-era skills such as online shopping and making hospital appointments with the help of student volunteers from 18 colleges and universities. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)

Shi Jiayi, a student volunteer from Beijing Foreign Studies University, teaches as a senior resident learns how to use a health-tracking app, introduced amid the COVID-19 outbreak, at a community activity center in Haidian District, Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 8, 2020. Since 2014, a community in Beijing's Haidian District has organized some 240 workshop events to help senior citizens become tech-savvier. So far, more than 6,000 elderly people have learned how to use digital devices and mastered digital-era skills such as online shopping and making hospital appointments with the help of student volunteers from 18 colleges and universities. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)

Huang Yicheng (L), a student volunteer from Beijing Foreign Studies University, teaches a senior resident to make a hospital appointment using mobile phone at a community activity center in Haidian District, Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 8, 2020. Since 2014, a community in Beijing's Haidian District has organized some 240 workshop events to help senior citizens become tech-savvier. So far, more than 6,000 elderly people have learned how to use digital devices and mastered digital-era skills such as online shopping and making hospital appointments with the help of student volunteers from 18 colleges and universities. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)