Population of China at the end 2022 year for the first time since 1961 year was reduced by 850 thousands of people. At the end of 2022 lived in China for years 1,41175 billion people compared to 1,41260 billion a year earlier. This data is provided by the National Bureau of Statistics of China..
In this way, China, whose population has been growing, entered a period of population decline. Previously, the Chinese government imposed restrictions on the number of children born, now the country's leadership is already demonstrating the opposite approach to demographic planning. After all, the decline in the population and its aging are fraught with far from the best political and economic consequences for China..
and Fuxian, researcher in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and expert on China's population changes, stresses, that China's population decline happened ten years earlier than expected. The real demographic crisis in China is very big, which requires prompt response from the country's leadership.
Cai Fang, Vice Chairman of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress, that China reached its peak population in 2022 year. Now the population of the country will decrease. To avoid population decline, Chinese authorities have begun to stimulate the birth rate. The country's new demographic policy provides for easing the financial and social burden of raising children.
A number of provinces in China have already introduced cash payments for the second or third child.. for example, in Shenzhen city pay 37 500 yuan (5 550 US $) as an incentive for a family with three children. But it is not so easy to achieve an increase in the birth rate in China.. After all, many Chinese couples are already accustomed to, that you have to give birth to one child.
National Bureau of Statistics chief Kang Yi reassures Chinese citizens: until recently, the supply of labor in China exceeded demand, and people don't have to worry about population decline. However, there is no doubt, that China's social and population policies need to be improved.
for example, sooner or later, the pensions of hundreds of millions of Chinese old people will be a very big problem. Finally, pricing needs to be adjusted.: housing, medical services, education is not so cheap, so that people can afford to have many children. Author:Ilya Polonsky Photos used:Wikipedia / JialiangGao www.peace-on-earth.org
