Generally speaking, the legal retirement age refers to the Interim Measures of the State Council on the resettlement of old, weak, sick and disabled cadres and the Interim Measures of the State Council on the retirement and retirement of workers (GF [1978] No. 104), which were approved in principle at the second meeting of the standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress on May 24, 1978 and are still in force The retirement age specified in the document. What is the legal retirement age? Let's talk about it in detail.
The legal retirement age for workers in enterprises, institutions, party and government organs and mass organizations owned by the whole people is:
（1） The male has reached the age of 60 and the female has reached the age of 50, and the cumulative length of service has reached 10 years;
（2） Men over the age of 55 and women over the age of 45, with a cumulative length of service of 10 years, are engaged in underground, high altitude, high temperature, especially heavy physical labor or other work harmful to health;
（3） If a male has reached the age of 50 and a female has reached the age of 45, and the cumulative length of service has reached 10 years, he shall be allowed to retire if he has completely lost his ability to work as certified by the hospital and confirmed by the labor appraisal committee.
The legal retirement age refers to the retirement age stipulated in the Interim Measures of the State Council on the resettlement of old, weak, sick and disabled cadres and the Interim Measures of the State Council on the retirement and resignation of workers (GF [1978] No. 104), which were approved in principle at the second meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress on May 24, 1978 and are still in force.
It is the fundamental guarantee for safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of employees and labor rights to resolutely handle the retirement and resignation of employees in accordance with the national legal retirement age. Notice of the general office of the State Council on further improving the basic living security of laid-off workers of state-owned enterprises and the pension payment of enterprise retirees (GBF [1999] No. 10), and the Ministry of labor and social security issued the notice on stopping and correcting problems related to early retirement of enterprise workers in violation of State regulations on March 9, 1999 (LSBF [1999] No. 8), the notice points out that the national statutory retirement age for enterprise employees is 60 years for male workers, 50 years for female workers and 55 years for female cadres. For those engaged in underground, high-temperature, high-altitude, especially heavy physical work or other work harmful to health, the retirement age shall be 55 years for men and 45 years for women. If they are disabled due to illness or non work, and are certified by the hospital and confirmed by the labor appraisal committee to be completely unable to work, the retirement age shall be 50 years for men and 45 years for women.