| Since the reform and opening up, the Chinese government has always insisted on the improvement of people’s quality of life as an important task. Improving the quality of life can not only promote the healthy development of economy and society, but also can promote social harmony and stability. China is the world’s most populous country in the elderly, since entering the aging society, presenting a large elderly population, fast growth, aging, disability, empty nest trend obviously,"old before getting rich" and "not prepared to old" has become increasingly prominent, but with the continuous development of the country’s economic society, the rapid development of industrialization and urbanization process to break our original structure system of the urban-rural dual structure, a lot of rural labor force transfer to the city, aggravates the aging situation and also formed the left behind elderly this special group-Due to the rural economic and social development has lagged behind, the old people in rural areas have many problems in economic support, health care, spiritual life, rights protection, directly affect the stability and harmony of the reform and development of rural economy and rural society.This paper from the theory angle, according to related problems of the rural left-behind elderly, a more comprehensive description of the research results at home and abroad; Secondly, this paper describes the overall situation of the population of Gansu province development, especially a detailed analysis of the elderly population in Gansu province distribution status; then according to the on-the-spot investigation data to analyze the factors of life and influence about the rural left-behind elderly in Gansu Province, find out the difficulties and problems faced by the rural left-behind elderly in Gansu province; Finally, try to put forward countermeasures and suggestions for improving the life of Gansu rural left-behind elderly, hope has reference significance to the development of the economy and society of Gansu. |