Tag Archives: social security

Taxpayers are not ATMs

This is the 1510 Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published in Chinese on My1510.cn, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s digest presents three articles exploring questions of social justice from three different perspectives … Continue reading

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Retirement age pushed to 65? People are nervous

A tiny headline on the front page of today’s Chongqing Economic Times reads: “Retire at age 65? Experts at the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security are discussing it, people are nervous.” It seems officials have decided to raise the retirement … Continue reading

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Retirement benefit accounts will be transferable between provinces

Starting January 1st, 2010, the retirement pension accounts would be inter-transferable between different provinces and prefecture-level cities. The minimum retirement pension of the “enterprise employees” will be raised by approximately 10 percent,

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