How Exactly Does the CCP Squeeze Every Last Drop from You

In 2012, the CCP proposed: “Delaying retirement is good—support your own old age yourself.” (Screenshot from the internet)

[People News] On August 1, China’s Supreme People’s Court issued the Interpretation (II) on the Application of Law in the Trial of Labour Dispute Cases, which explicitly states that any agreement or commitment between an employer and employee not to pay social insurance is invalid. This interpretation takes effect on September 1. Let’s review how the CCP’s family-planning and pension policies have evolved over time, and then look at this latest policy — you’ll see the picture clearly.

In 1985, the CCP began promoting the slogan: “Having only one child is good, the government will support you in old age.” These slogans were not only in newspapers but also plastered throughout rural towns and villages. Community workers were ordered into the streets to promote them. At first glance, it seemed great — if the government (meaning the CCP) would take care of you in retirement, why not just do what it said?

Photo: 1985 slogan — “Having only one child is good, the government will support you in old age.” (Screenshot from the internet)

By 1995, ten years later, the policy changed slightly — just one word was different: “Having only one child is good, the government will help support you in old age.” Those who had believed the original propaganda might still be able to have more children if they regretted it, but many thought, “Well, at least the government will still help support us.”

Photo: 1995 slogan — “Having only one child is good, the government will help support you in old age.” (Screenshot from the internet)

But even setting aside the question of who should provide for the elderly, was the “one child” policy itself reasonable? Let’s do the math:

A couple (two people) has only one child — meaning the next generation is just one person. If today’s generation numbers 800 million, the next will be 400 million. The following generation? 200 million.

Anyone can see where that leads. Even someone with just a junior-high or elementary education can understand it’s a brainless idea.

So why didn’t people see through it at the time? Not because we weren’t smart, but because of what came with it.

Here were some of the slogans:

  • “Rather rivers of blood than one extra birth.”

  • “Better ten new graves than one new baby.”

  • “If an abortion should be done but isn’t, we’ll tear down your house and take your cattle.”

  • “If one person has an extra child, the whole village will be sterilised.”

  • “Better a broken home than a destroyed country.”

  • “First child — sterilise; second child — abort; third and fourth — kill, kill, kill!”

Under such threats, and seeing women forced into abortions or model workers fired from their jobs, who would dare question it?

Remember how, when you had a correct idea, well-meaning people would warn you: “That’s a dangerous thought”? Where did the danger come from?

It took me decades to figure this out. Under normal circumstances, in order to keep a country’s population basically stable, what should it be like?

A married couple consists of two people, so the next generation should also have two people. Of course, accidents inevitably happen sometimes, and not everyone can live to a ripe old age. Therefore, a couple should generally have between two and three children—that is the proper logic.

But no one dared think that way, and those who did dared not speak. Twenty years later, by 2005, even if you wanted children, it was too late for many. And then the CCP changed its tune: “You can’t rely on the government for old-age support.”

Photo: 2005 slogan — “You can’t rely on the government for old-age support.” (Screenshot from the internet)

Now there was trouble. If you couldn’t rely on the government, who could you rely on?

No worries — the CCP would “think” for you. In 2018, it declared: “Caring for the elderly is a duty — pushing it onto the government is shameful.” Meaning: rely on your children.

Photo: 2018 slogan — “Caring for the elderly is a duty — pushing it onto the government is shameful.”(Screenshot from the internet)

But what if you only had one child? Could they handle it? No problem — the CCP had another solution: “Ensuring all women of childbearing age in the village have a second child is the Party secretary’s unshirkable responsibility.”

Photo: CCP slogan — “Ensuring all women of childbearing age in the village have a second child is the Party secretary’s unshirkable responsibility.” (Screenshot from the internet)

Two is not enough? Then three:

Photo: CCP promotion of the three-child policy (Screenshot from the internet)

Too bad — you’re already too old to have more children.

No problem — the CCP had planned ahead.

In 2012, it announced: “Delayed retirement is good — support yourself in old age.”

Photo: 2012 slogan — “Delayed retirement is good — support yourself in old age.” (Screenshot from the internet)

The Party endlessly promoted it: delaying retirement means you work more years, earn more money, and support yourself — great, right?

But think carefully: good jobs are scarce, your health declines, and you may need to stop working at 50. Yet pensions can only be drawn at the legal retirement age — 60. How do you survive those ten years?

From 2025, China will gradually raise retirement ages: men from 60 to 63; women from 50/55 to 55/58. And you won’t be saving money for yourself — you’ll give it to the “government,” which will “support” you later. Whether it can actually pay you then is uncertain — but paying now is mandatory.

And what if the pension fund grows large? The CCP has a plan: include enterprise employee basic pension funds in nationwide unified management.

What does “unified management” mean? In plain language: not only must your money be deposited with me, but I’ll also decide how it’s used.

There are already indications that large amounts of pension funds have been misappropriated.

So what if there’s no money to pay out later? The CCP has many tricks:

Raise contribution amounts — e.g., if you earn 4,000 yuan a month, calculate your social-insurance payment as if you earned 6,000 — until you can’t afford it and drop out. (Anyone working over 24 hours/week must pay.) Remember: if you don’t contribute for the required number of years, you get no pension.

Keep delaying retirement until you “close your eyes forever.” By 2030, the minimum contribution period will be raised from 15 to 20 years. Remember: by law, pensions are not inheritable.

Expand the range of people required to contribute — On June 9, the CCP abruptly announced that unstable workers with gaps in payment must be brought into the system, including the self-employed, part-timers, migrant workers, delivery riders, rideshare drivers, and others in the so-called “flexible employment” sector.

So what if you and your boss make a secret deal not to pay? The CCP saw that coming. The Supreme People’s Court’s August 1 interpretation explicitly states that any agreement or commitment between an employer and employee not to pay social insurance (including pensions) is invalid. This takes effect September 1.

The purpose?

To squeeze out every drop of value they can from you.

(First published by People News)