China’s Population Falls, Heralding a Demographic Crisis
China’s Population Falls, Heralding a Demographic Crisis
- January 16, 2023
- Wang Feng, sociology, The New York Times, MSN, Jan. 16, 2023
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“In the long run, we are going to see a China the world has never seen,” said Wang Feng, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine who specializes in China’s demographics. “It will no longer be the young, vibrant, growing population. We will start to appreciate China, in terms of its population, as an old and shrinking population.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/business/china-birth-rate.html.
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