Tag: Retirement

aging books ccp leadership collective action demographics economic growth elderly employee wages employment family planning food safety forced abortions Heilongjiang hukou job market labor unions legal system living expenses migrants migrant workers npc 2011 NPC 2015 one-child policy pensions

China to Bolster Workforce With Baby Bump, Later Retirement

A planned relaxation of the one-child policy has been among the most widely discussed aspects of the extensive reform roadmap issued last Friday. But The Economist’s Gady Epstein writes that China’s family planning enforcers will remain in business for some time to come: Some years in the future, the national policy will be two children per family, says Mao Qun’an, spokesman for the National Health and Family Planning Commission (the newly named combined ministry).