カテゴリー: China’s one-child policy
From climate change to women’s rights, what effect will the demographic time bomb at the heart of China’s economy have?China has entered a period of “negative population growth”, an important moment in the history of the country. As recently as 2019, t…
Negative population growth that arrived a decade before forecasts has been exacerbated by Covid and restrictive government policiesTalk to any young woman in urban China about the prospects of having children and the chances are, they are not keen.“It …
Teresa Xu says doctor told her to hurry up and get married before having childrenAt the end of last year, Teresa Xu visited a hospital in Beijing to discuss options for freezing her eggs. The doctor said she could not help Xu, a single woman, because i…