[EpochTimesNewsonJune192021](The Epoch Times reporter Wang Xiang reported) US media reported thatThe high-level CCP is discussing2025It is possible to completely abolish the birth restriction policy in 2015.
The Wall Street Journal quoted a source on Friday (June 18) as saying that Chinese Communist Party officials are beginning to formulate plans to further relax birth restrictions and gradually transition to policies that encourage birth.
The report said that this reflects the increasing urgency of the Chinese (CCP) government as economic growth slows and China’s population structure is aging.
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One of the sources said that the CCP’s policymakers are discussing2025It is possible that birth restrictions will be completely lifted by the year. Northeast provinces with the lowest birth rates may take the lead in removing birth restrictions and then extend them to the whole country.
Three provinces in Northeast China1950Times was once China’s old industrial base, but in1990After being severely hit by changes in the market economy in the 1980s, the birth rate in some areas of these provinces was among the lowest in the country.The latest census data show that the population of the three northeastern provinces has declined in the past ten years1.2%。
Demographics and economists say that positive action is needed to prevent China’s impending decline in the birth population.British MedicineMagazine “The Lancet”（The Lancet)last yearA prediction publishedSay, By the end of this century, China’s population is expected to14.1100 million people dropped to about7.3Billion people.
Although the population decline does not mean that it is a bad thing, but the big drawbacks of the deformed family planning policy to the population structure in the future have begun to appear one after another-ChinaNot enough working age populationTo support the growing retirement population-which may drag China’s economy in the next few decades.
The Chinese Communist government has been unwilling to completely abandon the birth control policy. Huari quoted a person familiar with the matter as saying that the leaders of the Communist Party of China are worried that the complete deregulation of birth restrictions may encourage poor families in rural areas to have more babies and exacerbate economic problems in some areas.
from1980Family planning has been an important policy of the Chinese Communist Party since 2000. Many families have been fined for over-birth, and others have been forced to sterilize and have abortions.
2013In 1991, the Chinese Communist government stated that families with at least one child as an only child can have two children with impunity.
In 2016, the Chinese Communist government announced the cancellation of the one-child policy. The number of births rose that year, but fell again in subsequent years.
In May 2021, the CCP announced that it would further liberalize the three-child policy.CensusIt shows that China, the world‘s most populous country, is on the verge of a historic demographic decline.
DemographersBring lasting changeBe pessimistic.
Mu Guangzong, a professor at the Institute of Population Research at Peking University, said that the Chinese Communist government needs to recognize that independent childbearing is a basic human right. He said that with the implementation of the family planning policy, regardless of how many children are allowed, the issue of Chinese people’s right to have their own children has not been resolved.
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