How to get your China pension statement

社会保险个人权益记录

Known in English as the Social insurance personal rights record. Look for this name on the site — it may not be translated.

• Your Chinese ID number, or the passport number you were registered under as a foreign employee.
• The city where you worked. This is the crucial detail: Chinese social insurance is administered city by city, and your record sits with the local bureau rather than centrally.
• Your employers and dates, in Chinese characters if possible.

1. 1
   Identify the city that holds your record

   Contributions are collected and held locally. A record in Shanghai is not visible to a Beijing office, and the local Human Resources and Social Security bureau is the body that actually holds your file.
2. 2
   Try the national platform

   The national social insurance public service platform consolidates some services across provinces and is the best single starting point.

   Open this page ↗
3. 3
   Request your personal rights record

   This statement lists contributions to the pension insurance and the balance of your individual account.
4. 4
   Check the 15-year threshold

   A monthly Chinese pension generally requires 15 years of contributions. Below that, options depend on your status and the local rules, and a foreign national leaving China may be able to close the individual account.
5. 5
   Keep the documentation

   If you are leaving, complete what you can before departure — the process is materially harder from outside China, and the local bureau will expect Chinese-language contact.

   Open this page ↗

You have left China and cannot reach the local bureau

A trusted contact in China with written authorisation can act for you, and the former employer's HR department often still holds the registration details. Chinese embassies advise citizens abroad on pension qualification checks.

You worked in more than one city

Records can be transferred and consolidated between provinces through the national system, but the transfer has to be requested. Until it is, each city holds its own fragment.

You are a foreign national unsure whether you were covered

Coverage of foreign employees is mandatory in principle but was applied unevenly by city, and some nationalities are exempt under bilateral agreements. Ask the local bureau with your passport number and employer.

Whether the national platform serves a full record to a user without a Chinese ID number and Chinese mobile number.

Upload the statement to your vault and we'll read the figures out of it — balances, benefits, vesting and retirement ages — and tell you what changed since your last one.