steven36 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 China today officially junked its controversial one child policy, allowing couples to have a second child amid deepening demographic crisis of shrinking workforce and ageing population in the world's second largest economy. Chinese lawmakers passed a historic decision allowing all couples to have two children from January 1, ending its over three and half decades old policy that prevented over 400 million births in the country. "The state advocates that one couple shall be allowed to have two children," the state-run Xinhua news agency quoted the newly revised Law on Population and Family Planning as saying. The law was passed by the 159-member National People's Congress Standing Committee, the top organ of China's parliament. The NPC approval was a formality as the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) headed by President Xi Jinping has approved itearlier as China, world's most populous country with 1.37 billion people, faced grim demographic crisis under which China is expected to face severe labour shortages due to rapid increase in ageing population. Despite massive publicity to the lifting of the one child policy being implemented since 1978, the two child rule has evoked less enthusiasm with official surveys indicating that people were not keen to have second child due to heavy costs involved in bringing up another child. According to the latest figures, the number of people aged 60 or over in China has reached 212 million at the end of 2014, accounting for 15.5 per cent of the country's population, with the number of disabled elderly people approaching 40 million. The United Nations has predicted that people over age 65 will account for 18 per cent of China's population by 2030, double the number in 2011 which will have a negative bearing on China's labour availability. By 2050, China is expected to have nearly 500 million people over 60, exceeding the population of the US. The ageing population has brought greater demand for elderly care services. According to a report published by Price waterhouse Coopers earlier this month, Chinese people will spend over USD 1.54 trillionfrom 2016 to 2020 on elderly care, increasing 17 per cent per year. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mossane Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 This was waited, judging by the fact that their population is being old very fast. Can't wait to see what happens from now, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CODYQX4 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 11 hours ago, Mossane said: This was waited, judging by the fact that their population is being old very fast. Can't wait to see what happens from now, though. More people being born in a world that has way too many people. That is assuming nature doesn't kick in and let them all starve due to lack of resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flitox Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 17 hours ago, CODYQX4 said: More people being born in a world that has way too many people. That is assuming nature doesn't kick in and let them all starve due to lack of resources. apparently the chinese people didn't jump with joy when hearing the news: "Despite massive publicity to the lifting of the one child policy being implemented since 1978, the two child rule has evoked less enthusiasm with official surveys indicating that people were not keen to have second child due to heavy costs involved in bringing up another child." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted December 29, 2015 Author Share Posted December 29, 2015 16 minutes ago, flitox said: apparently the chinese people didn't jump with joy when hearing the news: "Despite massive publicity to the lifting of the one child policy being implemented since 1978, the two child rule has evoked less enthusiasm with official surveys indicating that people were not keen to have second child due to heavy costs involved in bringing up another child." This is because the world has became lazy and too deepened on technology, back in the early 1900s people use to grow and raise there own food . The more kids the better they would put them in the fields to work. Now days most everyone depends on some greedy rich company for a paycheck . They don't know nothing about living off the land and being self reliant . Everyone will get old and humans will just fade away without having kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Over-population... Over-pollution... Who knows what's next... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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