China is to raise the retirement age for the first time since 1978, as the world’s second-largest economy faces up to a sharply ageing population that will leave it short of workers.
The country will gradually extend the retirement age for all men from 60 to 63, for women in white-collar jobs from 55 to 58, and for women in blue-collar work from 50 to 55, state-owned news agency Xinhua reported on Friday.
The measures were approved by the standing committee of China’s rubber-stamp parliament on Friday. They will take effect in January and be phased in over 15 years in line with the principle of “small-step adjustments”, Xinhua said.
- In the meantime US retirement age is a few years short of life expectancy - It’s the same in China. - China has one of the highest life expectancy rates in the world. Higher than the US, many counties have higher life expectancy that the US - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy - Nope, 65th place, slightly behind the US and the country of old men: Albania. - Worse, they fall to 83rd for life expectancy at age 65. That’s what really counts for most of us. 
 
- Confidence doesn’t suit you 
- Just curious if you had a reference for this statement since it seems to be false in multiple ways. 
 
 
 
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- Googling Xi Jinping age: 71 - Someone must have said he was 10 years over the age of retirement. 
- “The world’s demographic structure passed the point of no return twenty to forty years ago. The 2020s are the decade when it all breaks apart.” - Peter Zeihan, The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization 




