this is not the first time to raise enterprise basic pensions. Since 2005, China has raised the basic pension for retirees 13 times in 13 consecutive years. Statistics show that the pension amount in 2005 was about 714 yuan per month, and in 2015, the pension amount was about 2200 yuan per month, and the overall treatment of the retirees had risen by two times.
slightly regretted that the 5.5% increase in pension in 2017 was down compared with the previous one, and has set a new low in recent years. So, how do you look at 5.5% of this data?
Su Hainan, vice president of the China Society of labor, told a reporter in China Economic Weekly that the basic pension has been greatly adjusted for many years, which has played an active role in improving the life of retirees and promoting social equity. Go, the social security fund can't bear it. The growth of 5.5% this year can not only improve the actual living standard of retirees, meet the requirements of the results of shared economic development, but also meet the needs of the current economic growth decline and the sustainable capacity of the social security fund, which is reasonable and feasible. "
the annual rise standard is measured by the
reporter found that in 2005 and 2008 - 2015, 9 years in 10%, the largest increase in 2006 to 23.7%. Even in the 2007 before the financial crisis, the increase was 9.1%.
according to what standard is the adjustment increase? Su Hainan told the Chinese Economic Weekly that the extent of pension adjustment should be determined. It is necessary to make a scientific and reasonable decision after several factors such as ensuring the basic life of the retirees, sharing the results of economic development and the affordability of pension funds as well as the relationship with the wage level of the employees. Out of the specific adjustment range. Generally speaking, the increase rate of pension is no less than that of price rise, and the rate of increase in wages is not reasonable.
although the pension has achieved 13 continuous rises, but the gap is relatively large, especially from 2016, the adjustment range began to decline, the adjustment range in 2016 is about 6.5%, this year the adjustment range is about 5.5%.
since 2016, after the continuous years of high growth of pension, the adjustment of the adjustment has been reduced. Two reasons are given in Su Hainan: the first is the slowdown in the speed of economic development in our country. As a result, the growth rate of fiscal revenue, the average wage growth rate of employees, the price increase and the growth rate of social security fund raising have all slowed down. The second is the rapid development of the population aging. With the acceleration of the aging of the population, the pension level of retirees has been increasing, and the burden of pension funds has been increasing. "Cake separation must be made on the premise of making big cakes; if the speed of the cake is slowed down, the proportion of the distribution will decrease, of course, including the retirement pension adjustment."
from the speed of economic development, from 2005 to 2011, the growth rate of GDP in China is over 10% in the 7 years. Correspondingly, the adjustment range of pension is rising with the rapid economic growth, and the increase is mostly maintained at 10%. Although GDP growth slowed from 2012 to 7.7% in the year (7.7% in the year, 7% for the first time in 2015, 7% was 6.9%), but in 4 years from 2012 to 2015, the basic pension has remained an increase of 10%. As China's GDP growth rate dropped to 6.7% in 2016, the rise in basic pension was the first to 6.5%.
"it can be said that the adjustment of the pension system is complementary to the economic growth, the wage increase of employees and the collection of social security fees. Although China's economic growth has slowed down in recent years, the growth rate of pensions has slowed down. However, after years of continuous adjustment, the national average pension level has basically reached a relatively reasonable level. Su Hainan said.
the aging of our country is accelerating. Statistics show that by the end of 2015, the population aged 60 and above has reached 222 million, accounting for 16.1% of the total population, which exceeds the total number of Japanese population. Not only is there a large population, but the speed of China's aging development is very fast, with an average annual growth rate of 8 million to 12 million elderly people, especially among the elderly.
with the intensification of China's aging population, it is inevitable that pension deficits will become increasingly serious. In 2015, the national social insurance fund budget showed that after eliminating financial subsidies, the national endowment insurance deficit exceeded 300 billion yuan, which was significantly larger than the 156 billion 300 million yuan in 2014.