China’s births hit historic low, a political problem for Beijing
China’s births hit historic low, a political problem for Beijing
- January 17, 2022
- Wang Feng, sociology, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Jan. 17, 2022
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“The year 2021 will go down in Chinese history as the year that China last saw population
growth in its long history,” said Wang Feng, a professor of sociology at the University
of California, Irvine, adding that the 2021 birthrate was lower than the most pessimistic
estimates.
For the full story, please visit https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/17/world/asia/china-births-demographic-crisis.html.
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