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Recently, there has been a new trend in the society—raising retirement age,

游客2023-12-03  19
问题     Recently, there has been a new trend in the society—raising retirement age, which means prolonging working time. Some government officials think that raising retirement age is an unstoppable trend. However, other people are against the new change. Faced with the discussion, should we raise the retirement age on earth? The following are opinions from both sides. Read the excerpts carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should:
    1. summarize briefly the opinions from both sides:
    2. give your comment.
    Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
    Officials:
    Some officials, including foreign ones, think that raising retirement age is an urgent need for change because people’s life expectancy has been improved from around 40 to 74, which will give rise to many serious problems, such as unstable life without pension, losing spiritual comfort and so on. However, higher retirement age may help solve these difficult problems. Hu Xiaoyi, deputy minister of Human Resources and Social Security, firmly approved this reform and told Xinhua in an interview that considering China’s current development stage and some emerging problems, raising retirement age must go on the government agenda. And by pushing forward the reform in a progressive way, the country will not only realize steady transition of the new policy, but also avoid huge impact on the current employment situation. Another official said that raising retirement age in progressive steps would be in line with China’s labor market realities and should be prioritized. Yang Yansui, director of the Tsinghua Center for Employment and Social Security, said if the mandatory retirement age retained in current stage, it would place huge pressure on the government. Therefore, raising retirement age will be a wise reform to improve the overall level of the whole country.
    Opponents:
    According to a survey, nearly 70 percent of Chinese people, mostly young ones, are opposed to the proposal to raise the retirement age. In their opinions, raising retirement age will have a huge impact on them when seeking jobs. Liu Qiang, just out of college, said, "I had never thought to face the fact that hardly had I graduated from the college when I became an unemployed. From this perspective, higher retirement age will be a nightmare for would-be graduates". At the same time, senior citizens are also firmly against the policy because they believe that they will have to work longer and continue to pay more endowment insurance. What’s more, according to the traditional Chinese concept, people above 60 years old should spend their remaining days happily with their families rather than continue to stick to their workplace. They may have been dreaming of spending more time staying with their children, traveling or doing some pleasant things after they retired. The rest of people also think that though the life expectancy is rising, we cannot see any evidence that it has anything to do with raising retirement age. So accepting the reform would be a great challenge to those people.
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答案                     My Views on Raising Retirement Age
    Recently, raising retirement age has been the hot spot of people’s attention and was heatedly debated. As is known to us, whether to delay retirement or not is related to everyone’s interests. Is it beneficial to the masses? Here we have two different opinions from the officials and other people respectively.
    The officials who show strong support for this policy think that delaying retirement is not only beneficial to the state, but also salutary to individual development. Hu Xiaoyi, deputy minister of Human Resources and social Security, firmly argues that raising retirement age must go on the government agenda and be pushed forward in a progressive way. In addition, other officials point out that the improvement of life expectancy will lead to problems of ageing, including the provision for the aged and some other serious problems. Therefore, In their point of view, the delay of retirement age will become an irreversible trend for it can help alleviate these problems. While in the perspective of the opponents, postponing retirement age is more likely to aggravate the social problem of unemployment, and make young people lack opportunities of learning in the workplace.
    Although raising retirement age might cause some problems, I strongly agree with the officials that it would do more good than harm. For one thing, the delay of retirement age means that the old could still create wealth and thus, promote the development of the country. Besides, reducing pensions would largely decrease the government pressure. For another, it would reduce the stress of the younger generation. It is a heavy burden for young couples to support both parents and children. They could think more of their own life instead of always worrying about their parents if the reform is carried out. Therefore, from a long-term perspective, reform, based on the scientific and reasonable consideration, will provide people with greater benefit.
解析 本篇写作的主题是对延迟退休年龄发表个人看法，题目紧跟时事，学生具有很大的发挥空间。在具体行文方面，考生可以先引出话题，并简要介绍这一社会现象，然后分析支持和反对的原因，再进行客观的总结。支持方认为延迟退休年龄对政府和个人都有极大好处，同时还可以解决人口老龄化等一些棘手问题。然而反对方认为这一政策的实行可能会加重社会的失业问题，并可能使年轻人缺乏职场锻炼和学习机会。结合双方观点，分析自己的看法，并得出结论。
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