How the State Calculates Retirement Age in False and Real Years

Retirement age is determined by weeks of age. According to Article 1 of the Interim Measures of the State Council on the Retirement and Retirement of Workers (Guo Fa 1978104), workers in enterprises and institutions under universal ownership, as well as in Party and government organs and mass organizations, should retire if they meet one of the following conditions.

(1) Men who have reached the age of 60 and women who have reached the age of 50, with 10 years of continuous service.

(2) Those who are engaged in underground, high-altitude, high-temperature, especially heavy physical labor or other work harmful to health, and who have reached 55 years of age for men and 45 years of age for women, with 10 years of continuous service.

(3) Men who have reached the age of 50 and women who have reached the age of 45, with 10 years of continuous service, are certified by a hospital and confirmed by the Labor Appraisal Committee that they are totally incapable of work.

(4) Those who are disabled at work, certified by the hospital and confirmed by the Labor Appraisal Committee that they are totally incapable of work.

Expanded Information

1. Cadres of party and government organs, mass organizations, enterprises and institutions can retire if they meet one of the following conditions.

(1) men who have reached the age of sixty and women who have reached the age of fifty-five, and who have participated in the revolutionary work for ten years;

(2) men who have reached the age of fifty and women who have reached the age of forty-five, and who have participated in the revolutionary work for ten years, and who have been certified by a hospital to be totally incapacitated;

(3) those who have become disabled as a result of their work, and who have been certified by a hospital to have lost all their working capacity.

2. Enterprises and public institutions under national ownership. Institutions and mass organizations workers who meet one of the following conditions should be retired.

(1) Men who have reached the age of sixty and women who have reached the age of fifty with ten years of continuous service.

(2) Those who are engaged in underground, high-altitude, high-temperature, particularly heavy physical labor or other work harmful to their health, and who have reached the age of fifty-five for men and forty-five for women, and have completed ten years of continuous service. This provision also applies to basic cadres whose working conditions are the same as those of workers.

(3) If a man has reached the age of fifty and a woman has reached the age of forty-five, with ten years of continuous service, and if he is certified by a hospital and confirmed by the Labor Appraisal Committee that he is totally incapacitated for work.

(4) Disabled at work, certified by the hospital and confirmed by the Labor Appraisal Committee as totally incapable of work.

Reference Source Baidu Encyclopedia - Legal Retirement Age