How China came to regret its one-child policy
How China came to regret its one-child policy
- January 18, 2023
- Wang Feng, sociology, Vox, MSN, Jan. 18, 2023
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Many of these demographic forces are positive, the result of economic growth that has given people, especially women, the freedom to live the life they want, including one with fewer or even no children. But it does mean — as Wang Feng, a sociologist [and professor] at the University of California, Irvine who specializes in Chinese demographics, told the New York Times — “in the long run, we are going to see a China the world has never seen.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23558772/china-population-overpopulation-one-child-policy-demographics-aging-beijing-xi-jinping.
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