{"id":58681,"date":"2023-09-25T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T23:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/25\/beijings-demographic-crisis-means-china-could-get-old-before-it-gets-rich"},"modified":"2023-09-25T08:01:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T23:01:10","slug":"beijings-demographic-crisis-means-china-could-get-old-before-it-gets-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58681","title":{"rendered":"Beijing\u2019s demographic crisis means China could get old before it gets rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With millennials putting off children due to cost of living pressures, China\u2019s economy could be derailed by its growing number of grey hairs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/18\/peak-china-jobs-local-services-and-welfare-strain-under-economys-structural-faults\">Jobs, local services and welfare strain under economy\u2019s structural faults<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cici, 27, doesn\u2019t want to have a baby until she\u2019s at least 35. Her mother is putting pressure on her to get married and \u201chave a stable life\u201d, but with a busy job at a tech company in Beijing \u2013 while also completing a master\u2019s degree in law \u2013 she hardly has the time to think about starting a family.<\/p>\n<p>Cici\u2019s story is not unique; across the world, young women are putting off marriage and childbirth for longer than their mothers did. However, in China the phenomenon is so acute that last year the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/10\/free-college-and-ivf-help-china-hunts-for-ways-to-raise-its-birthrate\">population shrank<\/a> by 850,000, the first decline in more than 50 years, as the birthrate fell to a record low.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/25\/beijings-demographic-crisis-means-china-could-get-old-before-it-gets-rich\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With millennials putting off children due to cost of living pressures, China\u2019s economy could be derailed by its growing number of grey hairsJobs, local services and welfare strain under economy\u2019s structural faultsCici, 27, doesn\u2019t want to have a baby u&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,706,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-population","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58682,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58681\/revisions\/58682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}