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Age Isn’t Just a Number: Rethinking Civil Service Recruitment

For decades, the upper age limit for civil service applicants in China has been set at 35. Lately, however, there has been much (renewed) discussion on Weibo, a popular Chinese micro-blogging platform, about the possibility of raising the upper age limit for certain positions within the civil service to 40.

While the topic is nothing new, it continues to

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