Liu Chengmei has worked in Beijing for more than 13 years and plans to work here for another 6 years, the amount of time it will take to guarantee her pension. Paying her social pension insurance in Beijing, which she has been doing for 9 years, earns her better retirement benefits than what she would get in her hometown, Sichuan.
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Videographer: Yu Chenkang & Sun Peng
Editor: Yu Chenkang
Translater: Lu Yanyu & Chris Clark
Producer: Flora Yue