More than 30 million elderly people aged 60-69 in rural China make a living through physical work. To them, there’s no retirement, said a Chinese demographer.
An analysis of China’s recent national data shows there were about 150 million Chinese between 60 to 69, and 51.04 million of them were working, reported the Chinese media China Business Network (CBN).
Among the working elderly, the majority of them engaged in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery, accounting for 62.44 percent.
That’s more than 30 million people aged 60 to 69 years who are still engaged in manual labor work.
An Aging Labor Force
Dong Yuzheng, the director of the Guangdong Population Development Research Institute, said the rural elderly generally remain working to earn their living because they don’t have a stable income. To them, retirement is not an option, according to the CBN report….