China is expected to see the biggest ever wave of retirements over the next decade after recording a shrinking population for the first time in six decades last year. Is a demographic crisis fermenting in the country? What lessons can China learn from developed countries to deal with the challenge?

Host Tu Yun is joined by Dr. Lauren Johnston, Associate Professor at the China Studies Centre, University of Sydney, Australia, Liu Yunyun, Deputy Executive Editor of the Beijing Review, and Mike Bastin, China observer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton in the UK on this episode of Chat Lounge.