The China Report Network, which is affiliated with the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, stated in the article, “Every party member and cadre cannot be unmarried, infertile, or have only one or two children for such or other subjective and objective reasons. The article also claimed that “implementing the three-child birth policy is the responsibility and obligation of every party member and cadre for the country’s population development.”
What’s more, the article also requires those party members and cadres who are unable to have children due to “age or physical reasons” to “not stand idly by”, but to “actively educate, guide, and promote their own family members or those around them to implement the three-child policy.”
Because of the strong “official color” of this article, many media outlets in mainland China reprinted the article. Some netizens said, “It’s 2021? Am I going through it?” Some people joked, “I don’t want to ask if there is a house for a blind date in the future. They will ask, are you a party member? If so, then you can say goodbye. .”
Because this article has caused a lot of negative comments, China Reports.com and Sohu.com, Phoenix.com, and Tencent.com, which reprinted the article, have all deleted it.
Since the end of the 1970s, the CCP has forcibly promoted the “one-child family planning” policy in order to “control the population.” Today, 40 years later, this policy has caused a rapid population decline in recent years in China, a serious imbalance in the ratio of men to women, an increasingly serious aging population, and a shortage of labor. As a result, the CCP decided to end the “one-child policy” in 2015, fully implemented the “two-child policy” in 2016, and this year it launched the “three-child policy” to encourage childbirth.
Analysts said that the Chinese have been exhausted by the CCP’s “moon” policy, which is “different on the first and fifteenth day” of the Chinese Communist Party. Therefore, these new policies are not only ineffective, but also arouse a lot of ridicule. Statistics show that starting from 2017, the mainland’s fertility rate has not risen but fallen. Official data in November this year showed that China’s fertility rate per 1,000 people last year was 8.5, a record low in more than 70 years, and even lower than Japan, which is seriously aging.
Experts analyze that young people in China are unwilling to have children, not because they do not want to have children, but because they cannot afford to have children because the three mountains of “housing, education, and social security” have dragged down young people.
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