On Feb. 18, news from the official website of the Communist Party of China’s National health and Wellness Commission showed that the northeastern region can base on local reality to explore and study the documents that need to be issued to support the implementation of a fully liberalized fertility policy. And recently, all walks of Life have been discussing the issue of China’s declining newborn population.
The official website of the National Health and Wellness Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) gave the above reply on February 18 to the proposal of the CPC National People’s Congress on solving the problem of population decline in the northeast.
This is the first official release of information on the liberalization of birth control after the implementation of the “Family planning” policy.
Recently, the mainland media has frequently discussed the problem of declining newborn population in the mainland.
The Ministry of Public Security of the Communist Party of China recently released the National Name Report for 2020, which shows that by December 31, 2020, a total of 1.035 million newborns will be born and registered in 2020, a decline of nearly 15 percent from the previous year.
According to mainland scholar Liang Jianzhang, from 2017 to 2019, the population born on the mainland has dropped for three consecutive years, and regardless of the final figures for 2020, there is no doubt that the mainland’s birth population will drop for four consecutive years.
Financial commentator Wang Jian said that the data released by the mainland has a lot of water, citing the analysis data of mainland scholars, he said that the mainland’s new birth population was below 9 million last year, a drop of 38.5%.
Some analysts believe that the future of the mainland’s newborn population will continue to decline, falling below 10 million people.
In the face of the continued decline in births, some mainland scholars have already proposed that the births should be fully opened up.
Ren Zeping, chief economist of Evergrande Group and director of Evergrande Economic Research Institute, has written that China’s long-term family planning policy has brought China’s demographic crisis closer and brought increasingly serious economic and social problems, while population aging and fewer children is one of the biggest gray rhinoceroses in China.
He said that China will enter a deeply aging society with a proportion of over 14% in 2022, and a super aging society with a proportion of over 20% around 2033, after which it will continue to rise rapidly to about 35% in 2060.
Ren Zeping believes that the aging population with fewer children brings a series of significant and far-reaching negative impacts: the disappearance of the low-cost demographic dividend, rising labor costs, declining potential economic growth rate, declining young population, declining social innovation and entrepreneurial vitality, social class solidification, declining investment and savings rates, increasing social dependency ratio and pension burden, rising government debt and social security pressure, etc.
The mainland netizens expressed more helplessness about the fertility issue.
Netizen “fire garnet” said: “can not afford to raise, can not afford to teach ……” “wxk69inwza” lamented The “income is low, the house is expensive, can not afford to raise.”
For the low birth rate in the northeast, netizens “wxyfree” said: the economy of the northeast is not working, young people are going out to self-employment, no one where to newborns.
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