aging In many countries , the proportion of older people is steadily increasing. This trend has more positive or negative effect on society? Now ,thanks to the development of life standards and medicine care, people's life expectancy is much longer than ever before. Modern western countries, such as German ,now experience this trend. And it has been influencing gradually our society, which triggers heated discussion among people. Then for me, i argue that its disadvantages outweigh its advantages. Obviously, it poses a host of flaws to our society, which has effected the social development negatively. To begin with, social aging is likely to bring the lack of labour. Undoubtedly, it will raise the labour cost which means a lot of companies, especially labour intensive ones, tend to lose its competitive edge to a certain extent when compared to those who have enough labour resource. What's more, in order to provide comfortable life to the older, the government have to use much money to build relative infrastructure and offer effective health care. All these are big financial burden on governments as well as taxers. As a result , it act as a blow to the national economy. Admittedly, the increasing proportion of older people has their(its?) positive significance to society. This is due to the fact that old people are unlikely to commit crimes when they are compared with citizens in other level ages. For this aspect, it can be safely said that the growing numbers of the old can make our society more peace and harmony to some degree. However overall, still, i think we should control this growth. It is acknowledged that some developed countries has encouraged their citizens to have more children, which is the convincing proof for my statement. In conclusion, the overall impact of it has more drawbacks than merits. Although old citizens play a important role in society ,the adverse effects they have can not be ignored and people should pay enough attention on this phenomenon and try to find effective solutions before it causes more troubles.