What is the legal retirement age in China?

The legal retirement age in China is 60 for men and 50 for women.

You can apply for retirement under the following circumstances:

1, male cadres and workers are over 60 years old, female cadres and workers are over 55 years old, and female employees are over 50 years old, with continuous service or working years 10 year.

2. Employees who are engaged in underground, high altitude, high temperature, heavy manual labor and other jobs harmful to health, men are over 55 years old and women are over 45 years old, with continuous service or working experience of 10 years.

3. The male has reached 50 years of age and the female has reached 45 years of age, with continuous service or working experience of 10 years, and has been completely incapacitated by the hospital and confirmed by the labor appraisal committee.

4, because of work disability, proved by the hospital completely lost the ability to work. According to the Regulations on Work-related Injury Insurance, if an employee is identified as a first-class to fourth-class disability due to work-related disability, he/she will retain his/her labor relationship, quit his/her job and enjoy disability allowance on a monthly basis; Workers with work-related injuries who reach retirement age and go through retirement formalities will stop receiving disability allowance and enjoy basic old-age insurance benefits. If the basic old-age insurance benefits are lower than the disability allowance, the industrial injury insurance fund will make up the difference.

5. The accumulated insurance payment period of individuals should generally reach 15 years. For old employees, if they have continuous service recognized by the state in the past, the corresponding years can be regarded as paid.

Scrapping process:

1. Applicants should prepare their ID cards, household registration books, photos and related materials to declare retirement;

2, the applicant to declare to the unit, the existence of enterprises to declare to the enterprise, the unemployed to declare to the employment bureau of the jurisdiction;

3, enterprises, employment bureau to the local community departments to declare;

4. After passing the qualification examination, the files will be transferred to the local social security bureau, which will be responsible for the approved treatment;

5. Wait for the notice from the Social Security Bureau. The social security bureau will inform you to apply for a card and press your fingerprint. After all the formalities are completed, you can receive treatment next month.

To sum up, the legal retirement age in China is 60 for men and 50 for women. And worked continuously for ten years. There are also cases where you can retire early if you reach this age, such as engaging in jobs that are harmful to your health.

Legal basis:

Article 1 of the Interim Measures of the State Council on Retirement and Resignation of Workers.

Workers in enterprises and institutions owned by the whole people, party and government organs and mass organizations shall retire if they meet one of the following conditions.

(a) men over 60 years of age, women over 50 years of age, continuous service for ten years.

(2) Those who are engaged in underground, high altitude, high temperature, particularly heavy manual labor or other jobs harmful to health, and have reached the age of 55 for men and 45 for women, and have worked continuously for ten years.

This provision also applies to grassroots cadres whose working conditions are the same as those of workers.

(3) The male has reached the age of 50, the female has reached the age of 45, and has worked continuously for ten years, and has been certified by the hospital and confirmed by the labor appraisal committee, and has completely lost the ability to work.

(four) work-related disability, proved by the hospital, and confirmed by the labor appraisal committee, completely lost the ability to work.