 "Xi Jinping’s increased problems, China is becoming a country of old people")
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s tensions have risen again. In fact, Xi Jinping is trying hard to increase the population of China. They are also deceiving their own citizens. But their people are not ready to increase the population. This is why the population in China has once again declined. China itself said on Friday that its population will decline for the third year in a row in 2024. After more than six decades of population growth in the country, it is now in decline.
China is currently facing a population crisis. Indeed, the Chinese government said on Friday that its population declined for the third year in a row last year. This poses further demographic challenges for the world’s second most populous country, which is now facing an aging population and a continuing shortage of working-age people. By the end of 2024, China’s population will be about 1.4 billion, down about 1.4 million from last year.
China implemented the ‘one-child policy’ in the 1980s to deal with a growing population. It was abolished in 2016. From 2021, China allows people to have three children. But this did not help stop the population decline. China has long relied on its large workforce for economic growth. Many people blame rising inflation for the declining birth rate. Apart from this, the increase in the number of working women and women pursuing higher education is also being attributed to this.
China is becoming an aging country: According to research group The Economist Intelligence Unit, by 2035, nearly one-third of China’s population will be over 60 years of age. Officials said in September that they would gradually raise the statutory retirement age. It had not changed for decades and was the lowest in the world. The new rules came into effect from January 1.
The figures announced by the government in Beijing are in line with population trends around the world. especially in East Asia. Here, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and other countries have seen declining birth rates. Three years ago, China joined Japan and most countries in Eastern Europe in experiencing a steady decline in population. In many cases the reasons for this trend are the same: rising living costs are causing young people to postpone or abandon the decision to marry and have children, with higher education and careers being a priority. . People are also living longer, which is not compatible with the birth rate of newborns in the country.
Countries like China that allow very little immigration are particularly at risk. China has long been one of the most populous countries in the world. It has sustained a population dependent on rice in the south and wheat in the north in the face of invasions, floods and other natural disasters. After the end of World War II and the Communist Party’s rise to power in 1949, large families re-emerged, and the population doubled in just three decades, while the ‘Great Leap Forward’ to revolutionize agriculture and industry and some Millions of people were killed in the Cultural Revolution years later.