'It feels like China is suddenly ageing': Demographic problem sparks fears of retirement age increase

Analysts predict there will be 500 million people over the age of 60 in China by 2050. Now China is making moves to overhaul the pension scheme, suggesting in a recent government paper the retirement age will be increased. Compared with Western countries, people in China stop working while they are relatively young. On China's social media platform Weibo, there has been strong opposition to the idea of delaying retirement. "By international standards, China's original retirement age is relatively early," she says. There is one large group of people in China who have no chance of a comfortable retirement or a care home, they are workers from the countryside who've migrated to the city. In China children are raised to care for their parents.