Physical stores have also been welcoming customers brimming with filial piety. In an outlet of popular Chinese electronics brand Xiaomi near Xizhimen of downtown Beijing, the number of customers buying smart devices for their parents has increased by about 30 percent in the last week, according to a salesman surnamed Fu.
Smartphones are the most popular choice. Most customers bought phones priced at less than 2,000 yuan (about 315 U.S. dollars), which can be used to surf the internet and take photos, but are not too expensive.
"The elderly have reversed their attitude toward smartphones during the past two years, and the smartphones their children bought for them might be the main reason, from what I can see," Fu said.
"I've bought my mom a voice-controlled smart speaker for this Mother's Day, so that she can use it to enjoy Chinese operas," said Fu, who bought his mother a Xiaomi smartphone two years ago.
As society undergoes huge changes brought by new technology, with prices of smart devices dropping and new devices coming out, the elderly, who used to think such devices were complicated and unnecessary, have changed their minds.
More than 10 percent of China's online population was aged over 50 in 2017, said a report jointly released by Chinese internet giant Tencent and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in March.
About 76 percent of people aged 50-and-over now read news online, said the report, which also found e-payments, maps, ride-hailing and online video applications were popular among China's elderly web users.
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