So, one of the things you notice first taking the subway to work in Shanghai is, "Geez, these people are young." Now, from what I see about stats of the age of people in Shanghai, it's one of the areas with the largest proportion of old people. Confusing.
But for people working for larger or state enterprises, the retirement age is something like 55. And because of the overwhelming privitization of state owned enterprises, a lot of the older population have been (unofficially) retired. And many of the technical people in my cohort (or just before) left China as fast as they could after the Cultural Revolution, so there's a huge gap in the technical sector for senior engineers and managers. Those returnees are making big bucks, since they know how western enterprises run, and know how mainland culture works, so they are a critical part of the success in foreign enterprises in China.
Dunno, it's making me feel old. "I have a copy of K&R older than some of these people!"
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OK, got my SciFi movies wrong... It was Logan's Run where everyone over the age of 30 faces "renewal," or making a run for it...
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Bill's observations, started when we lived in Shanghai
