Over 30 Million Chinese Elderly Make a Living Doing Manual Labor

Farmers transplant rice seedlings on June 1, 2011, in Hubei Province. China’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MHRSS) made an announcement on June 5 that it will raise the retirement age for collecting pension payments. ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images

More than 30 million elderly people aged 60-69 in rural China make a living through physical work. To them, there’s no retirement, said a Chinese demographer.

An analysis of China’s recent national data shows there were about 150 million Chinese between 60 to 69, and 51.04 million of them were working, reported the Chinese media China Business Network (CBN).