{"id":547059,"date":"2021-05-31T14:06:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T18:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=547059"},"modified":"2021-05-31T14:06:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T18:06:21","slug":"china-updates-child-policy-amid-population-growth-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-updates-child-policy-amid-population-growth-worries\/","title":{"rendered":"China Updates Child Policy Amid Population Growth Worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-updates-child-policy-amid-population-growth-worries%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=547059&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/093303B2-5016-469D-B5BE-01A6AE0CBE9A_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Communist Party in China announced Monday that it is loosening its restrictions on births in the country after census data revealed concerning population numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-bd12b9c524853f33cca8db3a6930b936\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a> that the the ruling party stated couples are now allowed to have three children instead of only two in order to hopefully slow down the accelerated aging of the people in the country, which is reportedly \u201cadding to strains on the economy and society,\u201d per the outlet.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The party has enforced limitations on how many children a couple can have in China since 1980, AP reported, but has begun to worry that the amount of people who are able to work is declining too rapidly while the amount of people who are over the age of 65 is going up.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">China got rid of its well-known and established one-child policy in 2015, but it replaced the policy with a limit of two children, which apparently did not do enough to positively impact its birth rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">President Xi Jinping <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-bd12b9c524853f33cca8db3a6930b936\"><span class=\"s1\">reportedly<\/span><\/a> led a meeting of the party where they decided to begin \u201cmeasures to actively deal with the aging population,\u201d the state-owned Xinhua News Agency said. It reportedly stated that leaders came to an agreement that \u201dimplementing the policy of one couple can have three children and supporting measures are conducive to improving China\u2019s population structure.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cLeaders also agreed China needs to raise its retirement age to keep more people in the workforce and improve pension and health services for the elderly, Xinhua said,\u201d per the AP. No additional information was provided, but the outlet reported that the government has been discussing increasing the official age of retirement.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/10\/china-census-births-fall.html#:~:text=China's%20total%20fertility%20rate%20%E2%80%94%20an,uncertainty%20caused%20by%20the%20pandemic.\"><span class=\"s1\">article<\/span><\/a> originally published in early May and updated Monday discussed the population numbers in China. The outlet reported that China\u2019s population is recorded at 1.41 billion people, according to the census taken in 2020. \u201cSince the previous census, in 2010, China\u2019s population grew by 72 million people,\u201d it said, adding that \u201cin percentage terms it is the smallest increase recorded since the Chinese government conducted its first census, in 1953.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to the Times, the \u201cnew population figure puts the average annual growth rate at 0.53 percent over the past decade, down from 0.57 percent from 2000 to 2010. This puts China on course to be surpassed by India as the world\u2019s most populous nation in the coming years.\u201d It added that China\u2019s \u201cpopulation is also aging rapidly. People over the age of 65 now account for 13.5 percent of the population, the census showed, up from 8.9 percent in 2010.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The AP noted that around 40% of the 12 million births reported in 2020 were second children, which is \u201cdown from 50% in 2017, according to Ning Jizhe, a statistics official who announced the data on May 11.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Labor Ministry and Chinese researchers said the the amount of people who are able to work might drop to half the population in the country by the year 2050. This would cause the \u201cdependency ratio\u201d to go up, which is the amount of retired people who are counting on workers to create enough income for pension funding, as well as paying taxes for certain services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On Monday, social media commentary on some China-based websites revealed some people\u2019s thoughts about the change. \u201cEvery stage of the problem hasn\u2019t been solved,\u201d said a post on the popular Sina Weibo micro-blogging site signed Tchaikovsky, the AP <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-bd12b9c524853f33cca8db3a6930b936\"><span class=\"s1\">noted<\/span><\/a>. \u201cWho will raise the baby? Do you have time? I go out early and get back late. Kids don\u2019t know what their parents look like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The head of Amnesty International\u2019s China Team, Joshua Rosenzweig, responded to the change in policy, saying, \u201cGovernments have no business regulating how many children people have. Rather than \u2018optimizing\u2019 its birth policy, China should instead respect people\u2019s life choices and end any invasive and punitive controls over people\u2019s family planning decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rosenzweig added, \u201cUnder such a policy, couples could still be penalized for their decisions around childbirth. Raising the limit from two children to three would bring China no closer to meeting its human rights obligations. Everyone, regardless of marital status, should be entitled to sexual and reproductive rights, including whether and when to become pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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