China's young and old rail against raising retirement age

Move to shore up shrinking labor force raises alarm over jobs and child care

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Urban Chinese families often rely on grandparents to bring children to and from school. © Reuters

IORI KAWATE, Nikkei staff writer

BEIJING -- As China's government discusses raising the retirement age to offset the economic impact of its aging population, it faces pushback from a broad cross-section of the population, reflecting its unique family dynamic that often places child-care responsibility on retired grandparents.

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