by Maggie Kong, Shane Lou, Susan Shan, Kent Xu, Grace Yang,
Anderson Zhang and John Zhou
China is becoming an aging society. Gradual extension of
retirement age has been set as a national policy. In this article,
our team is going to discuss the practices regarding how to handle
employee retirement and how to properly employ retired staff for
the reference of employers.
- How to determine the retirement age?
Normally, the official retirement age is 60 for male, 50 for
female workers and 55 for female cadres. As for workers of special
types, such as those who work underground, at-height, under high
temperature, whose work involves heavy manual labor and other
conditions which are bad for health, if the workers meet other
requirements, the retirement age is 55 for male and 45 for female.
Apart from the said two scenarios, China has specific regulations
for other special circumstances.
