27 Jun 2022

Deep dive | Pension apocalypse: Why private pension reform is all the rage in China

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The chicken that was China’s one-child policy is finally coming home to roost.

And it raises the odds that the country will get old before it gets rich – a phenomenon policymakers and economists have long feared.

Indeed, the population is aging at an unprecedented rate.

The 2020 census resul...