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
“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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