Nearly 70% Chinese elderly intend to return to workplace after retirement: report

By Du Qiongfang

Photo: VCG

Photo: VCGA latest report shows that 68 percent of surveyed senior citizens in China intend to return to the workplace after retirement while 30 percent of the interviewees say they have economic pressure. Experts said it’s a normal and beneficial phenomenon given the slow growth of pension in recent years and labor shortages in some industries.

The survey report on the post-retirement employment of senior citizens released by Chinese recruitment website 51job.com on Monday reveals that 34.4 percent of elderly job-hunters want to subsidize their family expenditures through reemployment, or increase their family income to meet higher consumption demands.