China’s ‘long-term time bomb’: Falling births stunt population growth
China’s ‘long-term time bomb’: Falling births stunt population growth
- May 10, 2021
- Wang Feng, sociology, The New York Times, Forbes, May 10, 2021
Wang Feng, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, likened China’s birth control policy to a mortgage that the government has taken out on its future. “The census results will confirm that the payback time is now,” Professor Wang, an expert on China’s demographic trends, said ahead of the release of the results. “Demography will constrain many of China’s ambitious undertakings.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/china-census-births-fall.html.
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