Quotation of the day: Worries in China that population may soon shrink
Quotation of the day: Worries in China that population may soon shrink
- January 18, 2022
- Wang Feng, sociology, The New York Times, Jan. 18, 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.” Wang Feng, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Last year’s birthrate was lower than the most pessimistic estimates.
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