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Posts tagged ‘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 – a call for improving the social security system in the name of freedom, an appeal for developing a responsible culture in the use of public money, and a description of hardships experienced in rural areas.

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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 age in order to deal with the challenges of an aging population, and ease the strain on government pensions. Read more