Headline : Proposed Rise of Retirement Age Draws Weibo Complaints

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News of plans to raise China’s retirement age, found in documents issued after the recently concluded Third Plenum, have ignited a social media firestorm. The text of the plenum’s “resolution,” published to Xinhua, held: “In line with the principle of voluntary participation with appropriate flexibility, we will advance reform to gradually raise the statutory retirement age in a prudent and orderly manner.” China’s current retirement age for urban workers is 60 years for men and 55 for women (or 50, for those working blue-collar jobs). Hashtags related to rumors that the retirement age for the post-90’s generation would be raised to 65-years-old shot to the top three of Weibo’s trending topics lists, with a barrage of comments expressing skepticism and dismay about the move. The main hashtag about the rumored change was later censored and then became the focus of an official “rumor dispelling” media blitz led by state-run outlets—which many paradoxically took as proof of the rumor’s veracity. There are indications that censors also took down posts expressing displeasure about the measure.  CDT has compiled a collection of comments from Weibo that captured reactions to the potential change: 

Although China’s retirement age is relatively low, changes to it and other benefits for the elderly are highly contentious. Last year, municipal efforts to reform medical insurance policies in Wuhan, Dalian, and Guangzhou inspired protests by senior citizens that were nicknamed the “White Hair Movement” in reference to the youth-dominated “White Paper Movement” in 2022. Earlier this year, mass ridicule greeted a suggestion from a former Party leader that those between the ages of 60-70 be reclassified as “the youthful elderly” and continue working. The state, though, is forging through these concerns. A piece on the reforms suggested by the Third Plenum published by the Party-run tabloid Global Times hailed “the development of the ‘silver-hair economy’ and supporting the creation of diverse jobs tailored to elderly people.”

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