China in shock: Why no baby boom?

[my2cents]

Actually, I don’t think a shrinking population would be the biggest problem for China. The biggest problem is going be the ageing population where you have a bad disproportion between the old population and the young working population. With such low birthrates for the last few decades, China will be heading to a point where the young working population will disproportionately be out numbered by the old people.

This will be a burden for the country and its young working people, both financially and psychologically.

Even if China manages to pull a miracle and get the fertility rate on the right track in the next few years, the Chinese generation born in the 80s, 90s and 2000s will still have to face this situation in their working life:

I can’t believe it took that long for the CCP to change the one child policy. Weren’t they aware of this simple problem?

If you guys had only followed Mao Zedong policy of bigger population means bigger economic growth then things would not have been come to this low birth rates.

 

[Dungeness]

If you guys had only followed Mao Zedong policy of bigger population means bigger economic growth then things would not have been come to this low birth rates.

If Chinese reproduced themselves like rabbits, the government would not be able to provide good education and adequate medical care for those additional population. They would have performed poorly in academic test like PASA. China would have ended up with millions upon millions poorly educated low skilled people living an unproductive short life in subhuman condition.

 

[Beast]

If Chinese reproduced themselves like rabbits, the government would not be able to provide good education and adequate medical care for those additional population. They would have performed poorly in academic test like PASA. China would have ended up with millions upon millions poorly educated low skilled people living an unproductive short life in subhuman condition.

Just like lagging India.

 

[my2cents]

If Chinese reproduced themselves like rabbits, the government would not be able to provide good education and adequate medical care for those additional population. They would have performed poorly in academic test like PASA. China would have ended up with millions upon millions poorly educated low skilled people living an unproductive short life in subhuman condition.

There is enough food to go around. I am not one of those who advocate doomsday scenario for everything. What if you cannot educate every sole to pass graduate school? It is not end of the world. If you go back 50 years back, most people did not even pass 5th grade of school. Still they survived.

 

[Beast]

There is enough food to go around. I am not one of those who advocate doomsday scenario for everything. What if you cannot educate every sole to pass graduate school? It is not end of the world. If you go back 50 years back, most people did not even pass 5th grade of school. Still they survived.

Being alive and living meaningfully has big contrast.

 

[nang2]

There is enough food to go around. I am not one of those who advocate doomsday scenario for everything. What if you cannot educate every sole to pass graduate school? It is not end of the world. If you go back 50 years back, most people did not even pass 5th grade of school. Still they survived.

He was talking about education and medical care, not food.

 

[my2cents]

Being alive and living meaningfully has big contrast.

My parents and their parents lived lot more meaningful lives with plenty of children and grand children. I remember vividly those days when some three generations lived under one roof. Never a dull day and I never once thought I missed something in my life.

It is the newer generation that is averse to big families and meaningful relationships. We have become more materialistic and selfish.

 

[Scavenger]

This is in fact good.

The Chinese people don't want to have more kids. That means China will have a stable population for now and a declining population in future.

Thereby massively boosting per capita income and quality of life for the average Chinese citizen.

I only wish India could follow China in this.

 

[Dungeness]

My parents and their parents lived lot more meaningful lives with plenty of children and grand children. I remember vividly those days when some three generations lived under one roof. Never a dull day and I never once thought I missed something in my life.

It is the newer generation that is averse to big families and meaningful relationships. We have become more materialistic and selfish.

The time has changed, and I am sure you kids do not want to live your parents' life, it doesn't matter how happy they were.

 

[54ptu]

Quite contradicting to what I see on the ground during my holiday travels，but again what can you expect from the english media these days.

Yes in big cities people still have low willingness to have more children but at rural - county level I saw majority of families have 2 children and some have 3.. one child families are actually not easy to run into，a bit surprising to me.

I think there is always a risk that the birth rate bounces back too quick. Not sure a baby boom is what we need right now.

 

[Zhang Fan]

Why need baby boom?

 

[Lonely Hermit]

I really can't see why thus should be a problem. How many more people is this planet supposed to feed?

Check out Japans demography

From a perfect pyramid to an Inverted pyramid China is facing a similar situation aggravated by their one child policy
China is basically what Japan was 20 years ago in terms of demographic

Imagine there are more old people vis a vi the young, Low fertility rate will have adverse impact on these countries.

 

[JSCh]

Beijing expects 300,000 newborns in Year of Monkey
Updated: 2016-02-19 /By Liu Wei (chinadaily.com.cn)

A nurse takes care of a new-born baby in a hospital in Zaozhuang, East China's Shandong province, Feb 8, 2016. [Photo/IC]​

Beijing may see a baby boom this year with 300,000 newborn, up 20 percent than that in the Year of the Sheep, reported chinanews.com on Thursday.

The boom is expected as the Year of the Monkey is considered auspicious and also due to the abolishment of one-child policy, said Gao Xiaojun, a member of Beijing Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning, on Thursday.

Until the end of 2015, Beijing received 62,000 applications for having a second child and 20,000 couples already have given birth since the capital relaxed the one-child policy from Feb 21, 2014.

The number of female residents in Beijing who are of child-bearing age has risen by 2.36 million.

Most of the obstetrical departments in Beijing are already fully booked in the Year of the Monkey.

Gao said the departments are under severe burden and Beijing will implement a strict filing and delivery system to better serve expectant mothers.

China dropped its one-child policy in 2015 and allowed each family to have two children.

Chinese people have traditionally believed babies born in the Year of the Monkey to be smart and confident, due to their love of the animal because it is cute and resembles humans in many ways.

On the other hand, the Year of the Sheep is seen as an unlucky year as those born in this year will lead an unhappy life.