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Demographic timebomb - China may bring in two-child policy
Posted: 23 Jul 2015, 19:23
by 3rdRock
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/j ... bomb-looms
Faced with an ageing population and a shrinking pool of working-age people, Beijing is rethinking rule that saw most families being able to have just one child.
Thirty-five years after enacting draconian birth control rules blamed for millions of forced abortions and the creation of a demographic “timebomb”, China could be on the verge of introducing a two-child policy.
The new regulation, under which all Chinese couples would be allowed to have two children, could be implemented “as soon as the end of the year if everything goes well”, a government source was quoted as saying by the China Business News.
7+ billion and counting ....
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
Posted: 23 Jul 2015, 20:56
by UndercoverElephant
ignorant tosser wrote:
“The core issue is not about one child or two children. It’s about reproductive freedom. It’s about basic human rights. In the past, the government failed to grasp the essence of the issue,”
The government grasped it just dandy. 400 million fewer Chinese people than would otherwise exist? Thank God for the Communist Party.
Posted: 24 Jul 2015, 01:32
by kenneal - lagger
Two children is still below the replacement rate. Their population should still carry on dropping just not so rapidly.
Posted: 24 Jul 2015, 09:49
by 3rdRock
kenneal - lagger wrote:Two children is still below the replacement rate.
You make it sound like they're ready to go from an enormous warehouse somewhere in Guangdong.
Posted: 24 Jul 2015, 09:56
by emordnilap
Providing contraceptives of your choice and universal education about birth control is provided and funded by general taxation, this is one of the slightly more acceptable ways of limiting population growth.
Posted: 24 Jul 2015, 10:18
by fuzzy
That article is written in a highly coloured way. Why can't he just give facts?
'the future for China’s economy will look grim' [said someone who doesn't like it.]
Funny how they never mention that people with hard jobs in China draw pensions from 55 yo.