BEIJING: Over the past five months, Tan Peifang, 84, and Wang Xinhang, fresh from college, have lived together in the seaside city of Fuzhou in Fujian province.They eat together, chat and go for walks. They look like a loving grandmother-granddaughter pair, but they are not related. Up until Wang moved in, they had never even met.The widowed Tan chose not to move to live with her two sons working in the same city, so she hired a nanny to take care of her.
That arrangement lasted until last year when her nanny quit.
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