China will raise the age of retirement. What do people in Shanghai think?

Society & Culture

We went to the streets of Shanghai to find out what citizens thought about the prospect of China raising retirement ages.

Chinaโ€™s national pension fund is running out of money. People are living longer at the same time as the number of young people in the labor force is declining. According to a 15-year blueprint unveiled in 2020, pension reform is one of the governmentโ€™s โ€œpragmaticโ€ targets through 2035 โ€” including raising the retirement age.

We went to the streets of Shanghai to find out what citizens thought about this.

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