Photo by Sun Yidou/For China Daily] With increasing policy support and market innovation, a more diversified and vital ...

China’s aging population is placing significant pressure on its current pension system as the number of retirees grows while the number of contributing workers declines. Private pensions have ...

China’s pension system, known as the Old-age Insurance System, covers pensions, illness coverage, work injury benefits, and maternity support. It has two pillars: a basic pension system and ...

Citing a government think tank report on the financial sustainability of China's basic pension system, Lou warned that if the current payment rate remains unchanged, the state pension fund for ...

The special action plan emphasizes the protection of flexible employees, rural migrant workers, and workers in new forms of ...

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The urban worker pension fund, the backbone of the country’s state pension system, is under threat, warns the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Number of citizens exceeding the normal ...

ASTANA – Kazakhstan climbed to 26th place among 71 pension systems in the Allianz Pension Index (API), surpassing Austria, ...

The central government has decided to drop an eligibility rule to expand coverage of the employees’ pension system for part-time workers and nonregular employees. The goal is to increase the ...

But the pension amounts alone are not nearly enough to survive. Monthly payments in fiscal 2022 to an individual who had paid premiums for the entire 40 years amount to only 64,816 yen ($444).