Getting a job in China once you reach 60 years of age is very difficult due to the fact that insurance for workers is mandatory here, and once you are after 60 you will not be accepted by insurance companies. The only way to get around id for you to get the insurance with an insurance company abroad (very expensive), and hope and pry it will be accepted here. Some companies will do, but will not reimburse you for the expense you incurred.

You can't (legally). Period.

You wouldn't want to (realistically). Period.

It's a young man's game.

Stay away...it's not as fun as it was 5 years ago.

You had a job last year according to your first ever comment on this site. So you must know about the stupid age rules. 

Only way it seems you can work now is illegally. 

shandong province will let you go to 65  years old, we have 3 teachers over 60 working for our company.

Try getting a job at 61 anywhere. Without contacts there is no chance. And yet governments keep saying the age of retirement needs to increase because there is not enough young people.

In China, Government workers retire at 55. Factory workers are tossed out the factory at 50 for women, 55 for men.

The rules were made when the average lifespan here was in the 50s.... No matter how much tea or tcm they indulged in.

China is a young society because of historical poverty. The birthrate is traditionaly high because of high infant mortality.

These days, kids survive and people live longer.

The rules need to change. Even the volkswagan cheats can't kill enough people with their pollution to reduce the ratio of older to younger.

China is a mercenary society. They assume older people get sick, and the bosses don't want the embarrassment of not paying for their medical care.

For example, the bin man in a nearby housing complex. He works 14 hours a day, lives in a cupboard in the underground car park, fit as a fiddle at 45...,but the bosses wanted to sack him because too old. This guy, who put his two sons through uni by raking rubbish for bottles and cans... out at 45 because he might get sick.

The residents were not having it. He still has his job. They fought on his behalf against management.

Not because they like him of course.... Because he is cheap.

Anyway, the thing to do, if you are a 61 year old foreigner with a state pension due... Find yourself a partner, get a spouse visa, and let her support you till your pension matures.

If you already have a partner, get your Q visa then ask another question.... " Can I work on a Q visa?"

But your nationality is important. For political reasons... If your a Brit this is a good time for you. The Brits are here at the moments begging for trade deals.

My mother taught English at a uni in Wuhan in her late 60s. The way they got around it was that it was officially a volunteer job and she was working for a foreign organization. (Why anyone would want to teach bratty Chinese students for FREE is beyond me.)

The accommodation was free as was the food. There was a small stipend for pocket money. This would only work for a single person who is doing to have an experience in China. If you have a spouse or need to make some serious dough, it wouldn't get you very far.

if you are VERY desperate to work here, make a minor alteration to your passport, making the 5 into a 6... that will now make you 51. While I dont suggest it, I do know of one person who did an alteration from 1959 to 1969. good luck.

DIdn't Shanghai do away with it's age limits for hiring foreigners? Or they are just planning to?

As always in China, if you're willing to work away from the major population centres you might find regulations aren't enforced as stringently.  Try Jiangxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Xinjiang and other less desirable provinces.  If it's Beijing, Shanghai or the like that you're after - forget it.