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Should china raise retirement age? China Exclusive: Survey shows 91 pct oppose raising retirement age BEIJING, September 14 (Xinhua) -- An ongoing online survey on , a popular Chinese news portal, found that 91 percent of its over 800,000 respondents were against raising the current official retirement age. As of 9 p.m. Tuesday, 745,123 of those surveyed said they opposed raising the retirement age, while only 72,456 supported it. Chinese scholars and the public have been debating whether to raise the retirement age for the past few years, but the issue rose to prominence last Friday following remarks from an official. Wang Xiaochu, the official who is the vice minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said at a press conference that the government was studying the matter in response to a question on whether China would raise the retirement age. The retirement age in China is generally set at 60 for men and 50-55 for women. Many opponents in the survey said raising the retirement age would put more strain on the already grave employment situation, as adding working years for those now employed would mean fewer openings for new job seekers. As about 3 million people out of the 110 million employed in urban areas reach retirement age each year, and a higher retirement age would mean three million fewer job openings, Zhang Chewei, vice director of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), said in a report on . The labor market in China is already oversupplied, Yin Chengji, the ministrys spokesman, said at the same press conference that 24 million people would enter the job market this year but only 12 million jobs were available. However, others in the survey said a higher retirement age would help to solve the problem of empty accounts in pension fund. The volume of these empty accounts was estimated to be 1.3 trillion yuan (191 billion U.S. dollars) by another CASS expert, Zheng