China’s Demographic Crisis is a Serious Problem, Experts Suggest Openness of Three Births Explodes Public Controversy
According to the China Population Report 2020, China is not only facing a total crisis of a rapidly shrinking population, but also a structural crisis of an aging population with fewer children, as well as a shortage of labor. On December 9, the topic of opening up the three-child policy again hit Weibo, causing a huge controversy.
According to the Chinese Population Report 2020, China is facing a total population crisis that will peak soon and shrink sharply in the long term, as well as a structural crisis of an aging population with fewer and fewer children.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) has recently made repeated statements regarding the population crisis.
On October 26, Ren Zeping, president of the Evergrande Institute of Economic Research, said in a newly released population study that the birth policy has been artificially delayed for too long, and that it should be fully liberalized and encouraged immediately, suggesting that three children should be liberalized first. Some analysts say that, according to this line of thinking, a policy of full liberalization of population restrictions may appear in the future.
On October 28, Ding Jinhong, director of the Institute of Population Studies at East China Normal University’s School of Social Development, told Time Business that the trend is to open up birth control. He said, “There’s no need to discuss opening up three children; if you want to encourage childbirth, just open it up fully.”
On November 14, Miao Wei, deputy director of the Economic Commission of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and former minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), said at the 11th Caixin Summit that the full opening of the second child has not triggered a birth spike, and that the birth rate is decreasing rather than increasing. He also pointed out that in 2019 the birth rate fell to 10.48 per 1,000 newborns and 14.65 million babies were born. He also estimated that by 2030, the number of births will drop to less than 11 million.
On December 1, news that China’s total fertility rate had fallen below an alarming level made it onto Weibo. According to the microblog, Li Jiheng, the Minister of Civil Affairs of the Chinese Communist Party, recently wrote that China’s birth rate is low, and that population development has reached a critical turning point, with the number of newborns declining for several years.
On December 9, the topic of the expert’s suggestion to open up the three-child policy made its way back onto Weibo. As of this writing, the topic has been read by more than 400 million people on Weibo, with more than 56,000 discussions.
In the past, if you had one more child, you were fined. If you couldn’t pay the fine, you had to raid your house and even smash your furniture and other things to pieces. Now we don’t even want to have children anymore, and the population crisis is coming, so if we don’t solve the problem from the root, we will have three children. The first step is to encourage the birth of children, but who will support them? Do not think about improving security, but also three children, really funny”, “day whole these useless suggestions, really idle”, “the older generation of leeks can not cut, would like to re-plant new leeks. Who knew that the old leeks left the species too rational, and now do not want to be slaughtered, you say no gas?”. It is also a good idea to use a few words like “I’ve had ten children”, “It is recommended that an expert’s wife have ten children”, and “Before you have fewer and better children, what? Now regardless of quality?” Don’t end up learning the same thing from the family planning, not having enough three, fine, confiscate the family”, “family planning forced abortion is you, open three children is also you, we ordinary people have not yet come out of the ‘only one good’! This is a bullshit policy that uses people facing forward, not facing backward, and is a bullshit expert with uncorrected views. Think of how abhorrent your previous family planning was! Disgusting expert”, “expert expert, specializing in other people’s homes”, “expert don’t come out to disgust people, taking people as pigs!” and “Put the uterus on the expert, and the expert will give birth to as many as he wants.”
A netizen said, “You can’t even afford to get married, and you still have three children?” “Do you really think we all make millions of dollars a year?”
According to several research reports, the current low birth rate phenomenon in China has become widespread and trendy. In the face of declining fertility rates, the Chinese Communist Party has long been open to a two-child policy, and even several local governments have introduced measures to encourage births. But after several years, China’s low fertility rate has not improved. The Communist Party is suffering the consequences of its “family planning” policy, which has been implemented for more than 30 years.
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