China intends to delay the retirement age how do the people see?
Officials: not “in one step”
The outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the 2035 Vision announced by the Chinese Communist Party authorities on Friday clearly states that the authorities will gradually delay the statutory retirement age in accordance with the principles of “small step adjustment, flexible implementation, classification and promotion, and overall balance”, triggering strong concern from all sectors of society. This has aroused strong concern from all walks of Life.
Xinhua News Agency recently quoted Jin Weigang, president of the China Academy of Labor and Social Security Sciences, an agency directly under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, as saying that the reform would not be implemented in “one step” but in smaller increments, such as delaying it by a few months each year. Therefore, people who are close to retirement in the early stage of the reform will not suddenly have to retire a few years later, while for young people, the extension of the retirement age will be greater, but they will have a long adaptation period.
Ren Ming, a 55-year-old freelancer who now lives in Shenzhen, told reporters that he does not believe the government will push the reform gradually.
“‘Boiling a frog in warm water’ is a consistent strategy of the Chinese Communist Party, and it has always been so, and it turns out that Family planning is also in this form. Once policy implementation starts, it may be slow at first, but then it will accelerate quickly.”
Ren Ming, who used to work in the commercial insurance industry, said he noticed the flaws in mainland China’s pension system many years ago and described the delayed retirement as “tearing down the east wall to mend the west wall” because it could lead to more social conflicts, such as touching the vested interests that many people can look forward to.
Who will be blessed? And who will lose out?
On Weibo, the topic of “delaying retirement reform principles” has received 200 million readers and tens of thousands of discussions, and “vested interests” are the object of many people’s attention. Some netizens questioned whether the experts studying delayed retirement are nearing retirement age. The netizen said that Chinese Communist Party officials generally do not want to retire early because they can easily get a high salary just by sitting on the job. Workers who do manual work want to retire early, but if retirement is delayed, the older population may be forced to go out to work to pay for their pensions.
Other netizens say that the reform will ultimately cut the “leeks” of the post-seventies and post-eighties, because by the Time they retire, the relevant policies will have been fully implemented, but these people face serious employment problems because of age discrimination in many industries.
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security official Jin Weigang also revealed a few days ago that delayed retirement will not be a “one-size-fits-all”, not that everyone must reach the delayed retirement age before retiring, but will increase the space for individuals to choose early retirement on their own. He also pointed out that the current legal retirement age for men and women in mainland China is different, and the reformed policy will still distinguish between different groups and smoothly connect with the current policy.
Xie Minghua, who now teaches at a private school in China and is a former history teacher at a public high school in Heilongjiang, believes the policy will probably have the greatest impact on grassroots employees.
“Most people want to retire early and then think about other things. Nowadays, workers are really more strenuous and stressed, so one more year of work equals one more year of dedication to the authorities, which is actually nothing too necessary.”
Xie Minghua, 53, said that even though he resigned from the public school more than a decade ago, he has still been paying social security to this former unit for many years. He revealed that his wife is a doctor, and they both believe that many people pay social security for many years before they die is likely to “not get it back”, so “the sooner you retire, the less you lose”.
Scholars: will intensify the difficulty of employment
The reporter noted that the person in charge of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said as early as 2008 that the relevant departments are planning to extend the retirement age when the conditions are ripe. 2012, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Development and Reform Commission and other departments jointly developed the “Social Security” 12th Five-Year Plan Outline, proposed to “study the flexibility The outline of the 12th Five-Year Plan for Social Security, jointly formulated by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Development and Reform Commission and other departments, proposed to “study the policy of flexibly delaying the pension age. Thus, the Chinese government has been mulling delaying the retirement age for some time.
Xinhua also recently reported that life expectancy in China has increased from about 40 years at the beginning of the country to 77.3 years in 2019, but the legal retirement age of 60 for men, 55 for female cadres and 50 for female workers has not been adjusted for nearly 70 years. The report also quoted unnamed experts as saying that the number of people born in 1963 during the “baby boom” will soon turn 60, which will lead to a rapid decrease in the number of pension contributions and a rapid increase in the number of recipients, so the reform is imperative during the 14th Five-Year Plan. This reform is imperative during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.
Yi Fuxian, a U.S.-based scholar on Chinese population issues, said that the aging trend in mainland China means that delaying retirement is clearly inevitable, but that it will exacerbate the already intense employment conflict.
“If it is not postponed, mainland China’s finances simply cannot bear it in the future. But if it is postponed, it faces employment problems. Affected by family planning policies, China’s young consumer population is not large enough, and there is a surplus of more than 100 million people in the domestic workforce.”
In response to this issue, Chinese Communist Party official Jin Weigang said that the delayed retirement reform will bring some “new problems and challenges,” such as how to promote the employment and entrepreneurship of older workers, how to increase the protection of older unemployed people, etc. Only when “supporting measures are in place” can the reform be implemented smoothly. This reform can be implemented smoothly.
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