He made the speech in May last year but the excerpts were published for the first time on Friday in Qiushi, the Communist Party’s top theoretical journal. The impact of population decline “must be viewed in a dialectical manner”, Xi told commission officials. 01:53 Inside China’s Demographic Revolution Inside China’s Demographic Revolution The drop could … Read more
Chinese grass roots government workers, who implemented decades of birth control policy, are now calling up women in their neighbourhood to urge them to get pregnant amid China’s demographic crisis. When Jane Huang picked up the phone to answer a call earlier this month, her first response to the person on the end was to … Read more
A task force will be set up to address the problem, and dating events held across towns for unmarried men of different age and interest groups, the government said. The trade union of Dali will also hold 13 dating events before the year-end to “promote a correct view of marriage and love among young people … Read more
This dividend occurs when the proportion of the working population is high, and coupled with globalisation it has seen China become a global manufacturing powerhouse in the last two decades. But gauging a country’s economic prowess just by looking at its population size is simplistic, and it may be misleading. In fact there has long … Read more
“As the pandemic gradually ends, the wedding industry has rebounded significantly, and there was a hot wave of consumption during the 2023 Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays,” He said in a blog post on Saturday, referring to a spike in spending during the eight-day holiday break in September and October last year. Wedding-related spending … Read more
Why is this happening? Observers attributed China’s latest population decline to a wave of pandemic deaths early in 2023, after the world’s second largest economy abruptly dismantled its strict zero-COVID regime. Last year, overall deaths went up 6.6 per cent to 11.1 million, with the death rate reaching its highest level since 1974 during the Cultural … Read more
