The monthly retirement pension for government employees is about five-thousand yuan, while, for workers in state-owned-enterprises, it's about two-thousand yuan. However, the pension for farmers is as low as about 50 yuan per month.
Yan Shufen is 77 years old. She says, in her hometown of Rong county, Sichuan province, the pension a senior gets each month is very low if he or she holds rural residency.
"My Hukou or residency is in a rural area. People in my hometown like me still get 55 yuan a month for their pension now. It's very low. But if they have urban residency, the pension would be up to more than 1,000 yuan a month."
The government has pledged to establish a unified basic old-age insuranc
