China population: Re-employment of elderly an ‘urgent, realistic problem to be solved’

China’s state media has raised the tone of its drive to encourage more retirees to re-join the workforce by calling for investment in vocational training and improved regulations for elderly employment, as the country struggles with a shrinking and ageing population.

The state-run Economic Daily on Monday called on authorities to encourage more people aged over 60 to work again, as “the re-employment of the elderly has become an urgent and realistic problem to be solved”.