BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's growing skilled population will help offset the impacts of an aging society and shrinking workforce, according to some experts. Official data showed that the total number of births fell by about 630,000 year on year in 2017 while percentage of the popul...
Major poverty relief policies remained largely unchanged during the transition period following the elimination of absolute poverty. We made sure that though poverty had been eliminated, all of the related responsibilities, policies, support, and oversight remained in place. We established effective monito...
Population aging in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is mainly due to rapid fertility decline after 1970, a third of which was due to government policy, and the balance to social and economic development. Relaxing fertility policies now would probably not have a large effect on fertility...
In a signed article released recently, He said that the shrinking number of people having their first child and the delay in having children are the primary reasons for the country's low fertility level. The average fertility rate ...
Jan. 17 China’s Population Shrinks Again Shrinking population:The number of people in Chinadeclinedfor the third straight year in 2024. The National Bureau of Statistics announced Friday that the country’s population shrank by just shy of 1% to 1.408 billion. The figure shows that the country...
China has abolished(废除)its controversial birth restrictions,reversing(彻底改变)nearly four decades of family planning policies as birth rates fall. China began implementing(实施)the one-child policy in the 1980s to slow population growth.But in recent years concern is accumulating that an ageing ...
continues to shrink. To counter the drag of a shrinking working-age population on growth, the government is now planning to gradually raise the legal retirement ages. However, age-based discrimination is prevalent in China’s workplaces and incurs a huge cost to labor m...
They also stressed the need to roll out more robust incentive policies to encourage childbirth in order to counter the growing aging trend and avert a sudden sharp decline in population.他们还强调,为了应对日益增长的老龄化趋势,避免人口急剧下降,我们需要推出更有力的激励政策来鼓励生育。 The country'...
They also stressed the need to roll out more robust incentive policies to encourage childbirth in order to counter the growing aging trend and avert a sudden sharp decline in population. 他们还强调,为了应对日益增长的老龄化趋势,避免人口急剧下降,我们需要推出更有力的激励政策来鼓励生育。
China's one-child policy was introduced in 1980, with the explicit objective of reducing population growth to zero. But though it ran for another 36 years until 2016, it is only now that China has entered "negative growth" – its numbers have started shrinking for the first time in 60 ye...