Why China is ending its one-child policy
Why China is ending its one-child policy
- October 29, 2015
- Wang Feng, sociology professor, is quoted by The Washington Post Oct. 29, 2015
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From The Washington Post:
“Starting in two or three years, you’re going to see another substantial, precipitous
drop in young labor entering the labor market,” Wang Feng, an expert on Chinese demographics
at the University of California, Irvine and Fudan University in Shanghai, told the
Financial Times earlier this year.
For the full story, please visit http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/29/chinas-looming-crisis-is-there-and-not-there-at-the-same-time/.
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