China’s statutory retirement ages are low. Raising them, as the Five-Year Plan proposes, would make the pension system more affordable but it wouldn’t make an appreciable difference to the ongoing decline in the size of the workforce. Most older workers keep working beyond retirement age anyway. Indeed, employment among older people is higher in China than in much of the world.
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