[Epoch Times News on June 5, 2021](Epoch Times reporters Winnie and Luo Ya reported in Hong Kong) The Beijing authorities quickly introduced a full three-child policy two weeks after the release of the 2020 census data, and said it will gradually delay The legal retirement age. Mainland experts told The Epoch Times that the CCP’s move revealed the fact that China’s demographic structure has changed and that there is a severe labor shortage.
On May 31, the CCP announced the implementation of the policy and supporting measures for a couple to have three children, and said it would implement a gradual delay in the statutory retirement age.
After the policy was released, the topic of “the three-child policy is here” immediately became the number one hot search on Weibo. As of press time, the topic has reached 4.37 billion readings and 658,000 discussions, but most of them are negative reviews.
Take the Xinhua News Agency’s “‘three-child policy is here’, are you ready?”as an example. The investigation was originally scheduled to last for 6 days, but due to too many negative reviews, the investigation was closed on the same day. According to the news forwarded by the outside world, as of the closing time, 32,000 people participated in the vote, of which 29,000 chose to “not consider at all”, the proportion was as high as 90.6%, and the people who chose “Ready, can’t wait” accounted for only 4.6%. Only 0.7% of the people who choose “Already on the agenda”.
Some netizens commented: “The two generations of only children born in the 80s and 90s raise 4 elderly people as a couple, then pull 3 children, and then work until they are 65 years old. Before they receive their pension, they hang up… Can an expert? Give each of these two generations a martyr certificate? Live for the country and die for the country.”
According to the CCP’s official media reports, the CCP plans to gradually delay the statutory retirement age in the next five years. There are currently two plans. One is to extend the retirement age to 60 for women, and then to 65 for both men and women. The second is to extend the retirement age simultaneously for both men and women. Retire at the age of 65. But the results of the two programs are consistent, that is, both men and women will eventually retire at the age of 65.
At present, the CCP’s legal retirement age is 60 for men, 55 for female officials, and 50 for female employees.
Census exposes population crisis
In response to the hurried introduction of the three-child policy just two weeks after the CCP’s census data was released, the Epoch Times reporter interviewed a number of mainland experts. Among them, Beijing legal scholar Zhao Ming (pseudonym) stated that the CCP’s eagerness to introduce the three-child policy is undoubtedly the direct result of the unreasonable population structure exposed by the census, and even the absolute decline in the population.
According to the 2020 census data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of the Communist Party of China on May 11, the total population of China is 1.41 billion.
However, according to a number of people familiar with the matter in early April, the census found that the total population of China has fallen to below 1.4 billion, the first population decline since 1959; various government departments need to reach a consensus on the data and its impact before it can be released to the public. Time dragged on again and again. The CCP was originally scheduled to release the census data in early April.
According to official data, the number of births in China in 2020 is 12 million, a year-on-year decrease of 18%; the proportion of the population over 60 has risen from 13.3% in 2010 to 18.7%; the proportion of the laboring population aged 15-59 has increased from 2010 70.14% of the total population dropped to 63.35%, a sharp drop of more than 40 million people; the population of 65 years and over was as high as 191 million, accounting for 13.5%.
According to the analysis by Jin Qiu, a senior media person in mainland China, China will consider having more children and delaying the retirement age in order to increase the labor force.
Huang Jinqiu told the Epoch Times reporter: “The CCP may realize that if the retirement age is not delayed, the social security fund will be insufficient. Now that three children are implemented, the number of “leeks” (lower people) has increased, and the pressure on the elderly is reduced. etc. When’leeks’ grow up, labor can be increased again.”
The second-child policy is not effective
According to Zhao Ming, a legal scholar in Beijing, it has been nearly six years since the CCP released the second child on October 29, 2015. The three-child policy has now been rolled out in a hurry, which proves that the second-child policy is not effective.
According to official figures from the Communist Party of China, after the release of the second child at the end of 2015, the number of births in China rose from 16.55 million in 2015 to 17.86 million in 2016, but it fell sharply afterwards, falling to 17.25 million in 2017 and 15.23 million in 2018. It will fall to 14.65 million in the year and 12 million in 2020.
According to Zhao Ming’s analysis, one of the important reasons for the poor effect of the second-child policy is: facing the reality of extreme unfair distribution of officials, rich and poor, facing the CCP’s ruthless tactics such as high housing prices, high drug prices, and high education expenditures. The reality of plundering the people is that couples of school age do not want to give birth, nor dare to give birth.
He cited the recent “lying flat” phenomenon of the popular Internet as an example, and pointed out that “lying flatism” accurately reflects the silent protests of the people at the bottom of the mainland to the CCP.
“Lying Ping” or “Lying Ping Doctrine” is a popular online word in mainland China recently. In the words of Chinese netizens, “When most people’s hard work and hard work can’t make themselves better, they just reduce themselves to cheap tools… born as human beings, no one is obliged to be forever destined to be the wealth of a few people. Why should Ronghua sacrifice herself? It’s better to lie flat.”
Responding to the loss of family planning policy
Zhao Ming told reporters that the CCP’s three-child policy is a hasty response to its strict family planning policy that has been implemented for nearly 40 years. It is another proof of the CCP’s ultra-left politics from one extreme to the other.
Reviewing the CCP’s family planning policy, Professor Feng Chongyi, an expert on China at the University of Technology, Sydney, told The Epoch Times, “The CCP treats the Chinese as slaves at its mercy. The CCP has imposed the one-child system forcibly. For so many years, many girls have been killed and how many women have been forced to In artificial abortion, how many women get gynecological diseases because of the birth control ring, and how many families have lost offspring because of accidents with only one child.”
Feng Chongyi said, “The CCP has no respect for life at all. It has completely ravaged life unscrupulously, which has caused a huge tragedy. Now looking back, it thinks it’s no longer possible. If the’leeks’ are not cut enough, they will have more births. It’s just a humiliation, which makes the international community and the Chinese extremely disgusted, so the young people don’t cooperate and engage in’flatness’, I lie down, and the’leeks’ will not be cut for you.”
The CCP has implemented a population restriction policy in 1971, and has implemented the one-child policy in 1979. According to official data from the Chinese Communist Party, from 1971 to March 2013, China performed 336 million abortions and 196 million sterilizations. Since the 1990s, 7 million pregnant women have had abortions and nearly 2 million men and women have undergone sterilization operations each year.
According to figures released by the National Family Planning Commission of the Communist Party of China in September 2000, as of 2000, China had lost 250 million people due to family planning. Zhai Zhenwu, dean of the School of Social and Population Studies at Renmin University of China, speculated in 2011 that as of 2011, family planning may have reduced China’s population by 360 million people.
Up to now, the CCP still has not fully liberalized childbirth. In response, Jinqiu said, “The CCP has implemented the one-child policy for so many years and has done a lot of anger and grievances and tragic things. It has forced pregnant women to induce labor even if they are eight or nine months pregnant. If it is cancelled now, the blood debt owed. Do you want to pay it back? So it has to consider maintaining stability, which is one of them.”
“Secondly, because there are a large number of family planning committee cadres who want to eat. If the family planning policy is cancelled, what will these people do? So the CCP must protect its group interests.” @
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