Chinese President Xi Jinping has told women to create a “new trend of family” after a record fall in birthrates and rising alarm over the impact of an aging population on economic

Mr Xi’s comments on the critical role of women to “national progress” were published in state news agency Xinhua on Monday, after a meeting with the new leadership team of the All China Women’s Federation, which operates under the ruling Communist Party.

Doing a good job in women’s work was directly linked to “family harmony, social harmony, national development” he said, urging women to “actively cultivate a new culture of marriage and childbearing and strengthen guidance on young people’s view on marriage, childbirth and family”.

The number of births in China dropped 10 per cent last year to 9.56 million - the lowest level since records began in 1949.

Last year, the country’s population also fell for the first time in six decades, dropping to 1.41 billion people.

The decline comes despite government efforts across China to support families and encourage young couples to have children by offering financial incentives and better childcare facilities.

The demographic downturn finds its roots in China’s former one-child policy, which was imposed between 1980 and 2015.

However, the high costs of childcare and education, as well as growing unemployment and job insecurity, have all been cited as modern-day factors that lie behind low birthrates.

Gender discrimination has also deterred a growing number of young women from tying the knot, while official policies make it hard for single women to have children.

The increasing demographic imbalance has triggered fears among China’s rulers that the economy will slow down as government debt balloons to meet the soaring health and welfare costs of an older population.

Carl Minzner, an expert on Chinese law and governance at New York’s Fordham University and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), said Communist Party leaders recently had shifted from a rhetorical embrace of gender equality “towards a more full-throated embrace of traditional gender norms”.

The Party had been “underscoring women’s role in childbearing, backing away from verbal support for gender equality, and signalling the need for women to adopt a “correct” view on marriage and family,” he wrote in a recent CFR blogpost.

“This will likely fuel increasing conflict with the views of a generation of Chinese youth (particularly women) whose turn against marriage and childbirth has been a key factor in rapidly declining fertility rates throughout East Asia.”

After you have program their brains for decades to have one child
Population of old is way more than the young in China

richeeyo:
After you have program their brains for decades to have one child
Population of old is way more than the young in China

Lol! Despite the period of one child policy when it was in place, some Han Chinese were still having more than one child.

All China need to do is import black men in large numbers.
Those ones dey give woman belle inside dream, but their economy will tank. Black people and laziness na 5&6.

Onyiiobi7735:

Lol! Despite the period of one child policy when it was in place, some Han Chinese were still having more than one child.

You'll pay tax on every extra child you give birth to. Nobody dear defy orders in those countries.

With the population of 1.3 billion pple in China i don't see this as a good advice reasons being that the available scarce resources won't be enough to cater for an upsurge in the population that's abt to take place. This is why i bliv covid-19 was created by the Chinese government to eliminate some percentages of the old pple's population leaving behind the youthful population whose immune system could withstand the virus to procreate nd produce more youths in the system. It was an economic scheme

phorget:



You'll pay tax on every extra child you give birth to. Nobody dear defy orders in those countries.

Lol! Wahala.

SyrusdeHansome:
With the population of 1.3 billion pple in China i don't see this as a good advice reasons being that the available scarce resources won't be enough to cater for an upsurge in the population that's abt to take place

They need young ones to replace their population.
Japan is facing the same problem... They have more elderly people when compared to the young and in the long run if those elderly ones die and there are no young people to replace them. It will start having effect on their economy

Onyiiobi7735:

Lol! Despite the period of one child policy when it was in place, some Han Chinese were still having more than one child.

Definitely
But away from each other

AFRICA NEED TO TIGHTEN IMMIGRATION LAW FOR CHINESE AND INDIAN PEOPLE.


WE NEED TO START TO HAVE SENSE NOW.

ottersberger:
All China need to do is import black men in large numbers.
Those ones dey give woman belle inside dream, but their economy will tank. Black people and laziness na 5&6.

Their children will be discriminated against.

In many places around the world, black people are often discriminated against if they are among the minority.

sammyobi584:


They need young ones to replace their population.
Japan is facing the same problem... They have more elderly people when compared to the young and in the long run if those elderly ones die and there are no young people to replace them. It will start having effect on their economy

I knw but i'm looking at the disadvantages as well. Resources are so limited but the world's population keeps on increasing geometrically. That's the reason we're suffering in Nigeria. Imagine a Nigeria with just 40 million pple in 2023. Everybody'll be a millionnaire.

Useless advice.
The effective ways to increase birth rate is via poverty or religion.

The world population-age dynamics would be an interesting discussion in 2070.

richeeyo:
After you have program their brains for decades to have one child
Population of old is way more than the young in China

China that was almost jailing people for having 2 Children

richeeyo:
After you have program their brains for decades to have one child
Population of old is way more than the young in China

U dey mind them

SyrusdeHansome:
With the population of 1.3 billion pple in China i don't see this as a good advice reasons being that the available scarce resources won't be enough to cater for an upsurge in the population that's abt to take place. This is why i bliv covid-19 was created by the Chinese government to eliminate some percentages of the old pple's population leaving behind the youthful population whose immune system could withstand the virus to procreate nd produce more youths in the system. It was an economic scheme

they need a younger generation to support to older generation again Chinese people are highly productive they have what it takes to feed their population

Mr. President!
Hence you're still at it, please help me persuade one of your kinsmen to come and collect his bouncing baby boy in Ogun state; somewhere in West Africa.

Slawmoirr people WeChat hustle

You need population to strengthen your military.

SyrusdeHansome:


I knw but i'm looking at the disadvantages as well. Resources are so limited but the world's population keeps on increasing geometrically. That's the reason we're suffering in Nigeria. Imagine a Nigeria with just 40 million pple in 2023. Everybody'll be a millionaire.

The world is ruled on a country by country basis. For a country to be encouraging its citizens to have more children after initially limiting them to just one per family, shows they know they have the resources to cater for any upsurge, unlike Nigeria and Africa as a whole.

legitnow1:
AFRICA NEED TO TIGHTEN IMMIGRATION LAW FOR CHINESE AND INDIAN PEOPLE.


WE NEED TO START TO HAVE SENSE NOW.

How?? Have you ever seen Chinese or Indian national who's a hustler in Africa?? They come to Africa with their fortune to establish businesses unlike Africans that travel to other countries to make ends meet.

RenaissanceGuy:
How?? Have you ever seen Chinese or Indian national who's a hustler in Africa?? They come to Africa with their fortune to establish businesses unlike Africans that travel to other countries to make ends meet.

THAT CAN CHANGE.


THEY ARE HUSTLERS

ottersberger:
All China need to do is import black men in large numbers.
Those ones dey give woman belle inside dream, but their economy will tank. Black people and laziness na 5&6.

God forbid bad thing

RenaissanceGuy:
How?? Have you ever seen Chinese or Indian national who's a hustler in Africa?? They come to Africa with their fortune to establish businesses unlike Africans that travel to other countries to make ends meet.

They're many of them as hustlers at my backyard.
Some are ironing my clothes presently as I sit legs crossed typing this.

RenaissanceGuy:
The world is ruled on a country by country basis. For a country to be encouraging its citizens to have more children after initially limiting them to just one per family, shows they know they have the resources to cater for any upsurge, unlike Nigeria and Africa as a whole.

U made a point though, but i hope they won't come back nd start regulating the number of children a family shud have again in the future.