Abstract: Because the traditional family-supporting system for the aged in rural areas of China is weakening, and at the same time its conditions of socialization are immature, the solution to the rural supporting problems should mainly depend on family all the same, with society-supporting and land-supporting systems combined together.

Key words: land-supportingsystemfortheaged, family-supportingsystemfortheaged, society-supportingsystemfortheaged, providingfortheagedinruralareas