Plan to Raise China’s Retirement Age Sparks Anger

Plan to Raise China’s Retirement Age Sparks Anger
An elderly villager walks along a railway line on the outskirts of Jixi, in Heilongjiang province, China, on Oct. 24, 2015. Jason Lee/Reuters
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A decision by the Chinese Communist Party to raise the retirement age under a long-term economic and development plan has sparked anger on social media in fast-greying China.

In 2018, nearly 250 million of China’s 1.4 billion people were aged 60 or over. That is 17.8 percent of the population and it may exceed 33 percent by 2053, a prominent think-tank has said.