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Beijing pushes businesses to expand supplementary pension schemes for employees

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Faced with a rapidly aging population, Beijing is leaning on companies to expand supplementary pensions and ease pressure on the state system. On January 15, the human resources ministry (MoHRSS) and finance ministry (MoF) issued new policy guidelines aimed at expanding enterprise annuities – a volu...



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