Legal Retirement Age Thinking

The statutory retirement age in China is formed in the1950s of the last century, after more than half a century, although a number of changes, but little changed. Statutory retirement age as an institution should be dynamic, to make the appropriate adjustments with the social and economic development, several decades, China’s national conditions changed a lot:a serious aging of the population, per capita growth in life expectancy, pension accounts huge gap... but China’s legal retirement age has been no change in the proposal to postpone the statutory retirement age is often mentioned. In the context of accelerating the process of population aging, the current statutory retirement age set is significantly lower, and the implementation of the retirement age provisions in practice, there have been a lot of contradictions and problems. This paper analyzes the implementation of postponed the basis of the statutory retirement age and drawbacks, and to postpone the statutory retirement age legal system planning. The article is divided into five parts:The first part is the introduction of this article. Of the background and significance of foreign developments and research ideas.The second part outlines the social background to postpone the statutory retirement age:our law the existing provisions of the retirement age, the aging of the current situation in China, and the resulting pension huge gap.The third part of the analysis of the pros and cons of retirement age, citing the favorable factors for the implementation of postponed retirement, but also the possible disadvantages of the retirement age was introduced.The fourth part of the reform of the retirement age legislation abroad mode is introduced, under the premise learn from foreign experience, combined with China’s national conditions, providing legal advice to postpone the retirement age.The fifth part, summarized, summed up the full text of the keynote, once again it is necessary to clarify the retirement age, and should be an evolutionary approach to implement a flexible retirement system.