What is the current retirement age in China

1. Men who have reached the age of sixty and women who have reached the age of fifty and have accumulated ten years of service.

2. Men who have reached the age of fifty-five and women who have reached the age of forty-five, and have accumulated ten years of service, are engaged in underground, high-altitude, high-temperature, particularly heavy physical labor or other work harmful to health.

3. If a man reaches the age of fifty or a woman reaches the age of forty-five and has accumulated ten years of service, he shall be allowed to retire if he is certified by a hospital and confirmed by the Labor Appraisal Committee that he is totally incapacitated for work.

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Statutory Retirement Age

Statutory Retirement Age refers to the Interim Measures of the State Council on the Settlement of Old, Weak, Sick and Disabled Cadres and the Interim Measures of the State Council on the Retirement and Retirement of Workers, which were approved in principle by the Second Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress on May 24, 1978, and are still in force. The retirement age specified in the document "Interim Measures of the State Council on the Resettlement of Old, Infirm, Sick and Disabled Cadres" (Guo Fa [1978] No. 104), which is still in force.

Firmly handling the retirement and dismissal of employees in accordance with the national legal retirement age is the fundamental guarantee for safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of employees and their labor rights. The General Office of the State Council on the further improvement of the basic livelihood security of laid-off workers in state-owned enterprises and the issuance of pensions to retired employees of enterprises on issues related to the State Office of the State Council [1999] No. 10 document.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Security issued on March 9, 1999 the Notice on Issues Related to Stopping and Correcting the Handling of Early Retirement of Enterprise Employees in Violation of State Regulations (Ministry of Labor and Social Security Fa [1999] No. 8).

The Circular states that the State's legal retirement age for enterprise workers is 60 for men, 50 for female workers and 55 for female cadres.

Engaged in underground, high temperature, high altitude, especially heavy physical labor or other work harmful to health, the retirement age of men at 55 years of age, women at 45 years of age, due to illness or disability not due to work, certified by the hospital and confirmed by the Labor Appraisal Committee of the total loss of the ability to work, the retirement age of 50 years of age for men and 45 years of age for women.

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