Retirement age will be pushed back: minister

BEIJING - China's top labor official said the country is planning to push back the age at which workers can retire.

Yin Weimin, minister of human resources and social security, did not put a timetable on the move when he spoke about it during a forum at the weekend.

"Delaying the retirement age is a very complicated issue and we will study it according to the situations of population and employment and consider different groups of people," Yin said.