Chinese couples urged to have more children

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Chinese couples urged to have more children

Just 5% of women of child-bearing age in Shanghai have taken advantage of change to one-child policy, figures show


China changed its one-child policy in 2013.

For decades, most urban Chinese families could have only one child. Now officials in China's biggest city are telling young couples: please have more children.

Fan Hua, of Shanghai's family planning commission, said fewer people than expected had taken advantage of a recent rule change that allows more households to bear a second child.

The Qianjiang Evening News quoted Fan as saying that 90% of the city's women of child-bearing age were eligible for a second child under the change made in 2013, but that only 5% had applied. Shanghai officials urged more households to do so.

China's birth rate is among the lowest of developing countries, nearly four decades after the country restricted most urban couples to having one child.

An ageing society threatens to slow down China's booming economy and overload its pension system when too few workers will be supporting growing numbers of the elderly.

"It's very clear that the next 10 to 15 years down the road will not be so good-looking," said Yong Cai, a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"China should have changed this policy at least 10 years earlier when the economic and social situation was quite different. My view is quite pessimistic, that the policy change announced last year was too little, too late."

The governor's office of Shandong province, one of the country's most populous, has also called attention to the consequences of the one-child rule, noting that Shandong had about 20% more men than women, according to the China Youth Daily newspaper. Many couples restricted to one child abort female foetuses until they have a male baby.

The figures have contributed to speculation that the Chinese government will further relax regulations on family sizes.

Many Chinese couples are refraining from having more than one child as education and other costs soar, Yong said. Birth rates in neighbouring Asian countries, as well as in Hong Kong and Taiwan, have also dropped.
Chinese couples urged to have more children | World news | The Guardian
There is nothing unusual that 90% of the Shanghai's women of child-bearing age were eligible for a second child under the change made in 2013, but that only 5% had applied. It is the yearning of the Chinese psyche to have money and luxuries that money can buy. Therefore, if one has more children, the money gets distributed at the cost of a good life. Further, the old values have practically vanished and that is why the Chinese education minister has told the Chinese to shun western values.

The fact that Shandong had about 20% more men than women and many couples restricted to one child aborted female foetuses until they have a male baby has serious social ramification where homosexuality is rampant.

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So China has reversed the one child policy after coming to realise that Population is actually an asset and not a burden with correct economic policies(Read Capitalism)

And here we have Indian geniuses thinking about taking away a basic Human right or a basic right of any living thing(right to reproduce) away to solve population "problem"


There is a reason China is two decades ahead of these idiots in every field:tsk:
 
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The sociology professor is right, its too little, too late. China will pay the price for this silly policy.
 

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So China has reversed the one child policy after coming to realise that Population is actually an asset and not a burden with correct economic policies(Read Capitalism)

And here we have Indian geniuses thinking about taking away a basic Human right or a basic right of any living thing(right to reproduce) away to solve population "problem"


There is a reason China is two decades ahead of these idiots in every field:tsk:
We lagged behind them because of too much of socialism in India and still our old generation still enticed to it. Compared to Chinese, we Indians have preserved our cultural values is quite a better way.
 

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we Indians have preserved our cultural values is quite a better way.
i have to disagree, china may embrace western living standard(materlism) but they still keep its core culture value, chinese holiday, confusim, etc etc
 

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We lagged behind them because of too much of socialism in India and still our old generation still enticed to it. Compared to Chinese, we Indians have preserved our cultural values is quite a better way.
What nonsense. What cultural ways? We dont even have the balls to assert this country's Hindu Origin. Atleast the Chinese assert their Confucian origin very frequently:rolleyes:
 

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What nonsense. What cultural ways? We dont even have the balls to assert this country's Hindu Origin. Atleast the Chinese assert their Confucian origin very frequently:rolleyes:
That's not a good comparison, Chinese are just trying to recover their lost values after losing it during cultural revolution. Compare Taiwanese cultural values with that of Communist China, you will understand what I am referring to.
 

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That's not a good comparison, Chinese are just trying to recover their lost values after losing it during cultural revolution. Compare Taiwanese cultural values with that of Communist China, you will understand what I am referring to.
Again, how does Taiwan being better than PRC prove your point that India preserved its cultural value than China? Seriously? And As I said, the real PRC starts only after 1979, .ie after they started becoming sane(becoming capitalist), something we only partially started in 1991(Capitalism)
 

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So China has reversed the one child policy after coming to realise that Population is actually an asset and not a burden with correct economic policies(Read Capitalism)

And here we have Indian geniuses thinking about taking away a basic Human right or a basic right of any living thing(right to reproduce) away to solve population "problem"
No, it is simply a reflection of the change of social wealth: when the whole society is in poverty, you better concentrate your resource on fewer children; when the society becomes richer, you certainly can afford more children without lowering down their living standard.
 

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China requires children.

The One child Policy has given rise to a period when there will be no young and able bodied people to flame their industry and economy, the same way it is in Europe.

The One Child Policy was fine in the initial stages, but it should have been tempered with an eye on the future.
 

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No, it is simply a reflection of the change of social wealth: when the whole society is in poverty, you better concentrate your resource on fewer children; when the society becomes richer, you certainly can afford more children without lowering down their living standard.
Non sense. If what you are saying is true, then the western nations should have higher TFR which should increase each year with their growing "social wealth".

Despite what your CCP brainwashes you believe, "One child policy" actually hurt the Chinese economy. Your masters are recognising that now and that is the real reason for this policy reversal. But being a CCPian, you can continue to believe how your govt restricting what you do with your private parts is beneficial for you.:thumb:
 

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Non sense. If what you are saying is true, then the western nations should have higher TFR which should increase each year with their growing "social wealth".
Only fools will put Chin and Europe together to compare. They are in different development stage: Europe society and economy already matured while Chinese is still far from it.

Despite what your CCP brainwashes you believe, "One child policy" actually hurt the Chinese economy. Your masters are recognising that now and that is the real reason for this policy reversal. But being a CCPian, you can continue to believe how your govt restricting what you do with your private parts is beneficial for you.:thumb:
I guess someone just don't know how to argue but putting up "brainwash".
Yes, you are right, it is China not India that has the largest number of malnourished Children in the world; It is also China not India that has only 70% literacy rate.
 

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