Lawmakers approved the draft proposal Friday, as the world’s second-largest economy struggles with falling birth rates and an aging workforce.
China said Friday it would raise its retirement age for the first time in decades, as the world’s second-largest economy struggles with falling birth rates and an aging workforce.
The country’s top legislative body approved a draft proposal to gradually implement the changes, state media reported Friday. China’s retirement ages are among the lowest in the world and had remained unchanged since they were set in the 1950s.
The statutory retirement age for both men and women will be gradually increased starting Jan. 1 of next year, according to the decision by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. Over a period of 15 years, it will be raised from 60 to 63 for men, 55 to 58 for women in white-collar jobs and 50 to 55 for women working in factories.
Right???
Fucking hell.
The french are throwing a hissy fit over that issue. The younger working class has to sacrifice their retirement because “the economy”. Meanwhile you got rich assholes parading on their huge yachts in St-Tropez and the French Riviera thanks to the money they make from dodging taxes.
sink the yachts
Speaking of which. I recently visited Monaco and the French Riviera and the account of wealth and opulence has radicalized me. As if the cost of living wasn’t enough to do so already.
I could write a book about how mad I am at our governments who enable these rich fucks while asking the rest of us to make sacrifices. .