The title of this post would be announcing a mathematical impossibility if it was really the case that the “one child” policy in China, which was introduced over a quarter of a century ago, in 1979, had actually succeeded in halving the Chinese population during that generation. While White European women are giving birth to around 1.3 children, our population is shrinking. China has only had a reduction in the population growth that they previously had.
It is not an all-encompassing rule because it has always been restricted to ethnic Han Chinese living in urban areas. Citizens living in rural areas and minorities living in China are not subject to the law.
Now that millions of sibling-less people in China are now young adults in or nearing their child-bearing years, a special provision allows millions of couples to have two children legally. If a couple is composed of two people without siblings, then they may have two children of their own, thus preventing too dramatic of a population decrease.
The Chinese official birth rate now stands at 1.7 per woman, but this in not a replacement level, let alone believable as a statistic when we know that the population is in fact still growing. Someone is fibbing…
And who will explain this:
These statistics coming out of China’s housing boom are mind boggling. In a fortnight, enough houses are built to reproduce Rome. In a year, it would replace every house in Spain. In a decade it could just about build the equivalent of Europe’s entire housing stock, give or take Turkey. It’s this phenomenon that underpins the strength of resource-based economies like ours and any major reversal would have serious implications here. I spoke to the economist intelligence unit Stephen Joske who’s just finished a report on the Chinese property boom.
The article states that the rural Chinese are moving to the city, but still these figures suggest a burgeoning population.
China is undoubtedly limiting births. Their eugenic policies are not highlighted very much though. China understands eugenics – and we should be aware of what they are doing.
effective 1 June 1995. The amendment to the marriage law is contained in a new Maternal and Infant Health law. The law will require couples to pass a battery of health tests before they are permitted to be married. Persons who risk passing along serious ailments to their children are barred from marriage until they undergo long-term or permanent measures to prevent pregnancy. People afflicted with sexually transmitted diseases–including AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) likely will never receive permission to marry under the new law. People suffering from schizophrenia or manic depression will not be permitted to marry until treatment has successfully removed such conditions. The new law also requires the abortion of diseased or abnormal fetuses.
