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Are there centenarians in the world?

Yes!

It is reported that the longest-lived person is Li Qingyuan, a health worker of longevity qigong in China. Born in the 18th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi, he died in the 24th year of the Republic of China (1679- 1935) at the age of 256. Li Qingyuan was born in Yunnan, and settled in Kaixian County, Sichuan in his 90s, until his death. Liu Chengxun, a native of Kaixian County, Sichuan Province, paid a special visit to the old man on 1925. Liu's interview and reminiscence articles were published in the sixth issue of Qigong magazine 1986, and there was also 1000 words of Immortality dictated by the birthday girl. After the death of the old man, some newspapers in Beijing reported on the topic of "the longest-lived person on earth", but it was doubted and denied by Guinness World Records at that time, and was later confirmed by many textual researches. According to the statistics in 2000, there are 1 10,000 centenarians in China. According to the latest statistics of the United Nations, the global elderly population is 629 million, accounting for 10%. In 2002, there were about 265,438+00,000 centenarians in the world, with an average of 33.39 per million people. Gong Laifa, Guizhou, China, died at the age of 1.996; Li Qinglian, a medicine farmer in Qingchengshan, Sichuan, died at the age of 154. Iranian old woman Mohsen, 1997 16 1 year old; There was a man named Manping in Japan who lived for 242 years, his wife was 22 1 year-old, his son 196, his daughter-in-law 193, his grandson 15 1 year-old, and his daughter-in-law 138. Li Qingyuan, a scholar of traditional Chinese medicine in China, died at the age of 256 at 1933. The above proves that people who live to 100 or even 200 years old have made undeniable achievements.