Gravitas: China's population is shrinking. Here's why Beijing is scared

Cities across China are offering cash incentives to couples who have more children. Some cities are also offering childcare subsidies. Why does the World's most populous country want more babies?

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[jasperangel]

Fan here in the Philippines 🌴 and I'm supporting freedom from Dictatorship of Xi Jinping

[reeltv]

They went from 1 child policy to pay people to have 3 children in just 5 year's. Show you they have no idea of what they're doing.

[commnsense]

Peter Zeihan has also talked about China's demographic decline and related problems. It was an eye opener. Google it.

[Michael-utmu]

China has had trouble keeping its population. I happened to watch China expert Frank Dikotter last night. The Great Leap Forward, another policy disaster, led to deaths of about 45 million (1958-62). Most died from a deliberate policy of withholding food. What better way of reducing costs of supporting elderly and sick than mass death from a poorly managed Covid response?

[shubhamer]

JAPAN population has been shrinking since 2012 and S KOREA is also following and now CHINA we have to examine them to learn how society functions in such conditions as sooner or later many countries will face such situation

[Triatan_at_war]

Ppl can't afford to raise a child and lock downs are not helping social interaction

[kanthavelkv]

With AI enabled robotic production processes going to be the norm in next 10 years, why do you need more population.

[thesisLAx]

India and China would both be best with a population no more than 500 million. I do not wish away living souls, I simply mean for the best quality of life and nature in everyday life.

[seeker]

Population shrinking is not a problem, its loss of intellectuals, technicians, professionals. It takes too much time to fill the gaps left by professionals, meanwhile supply chain will be affected.

[lonelllonell]

Depopulation that's what's happening

[chestersabajo]

WION should get rid of the annoying bots🤖🤖

[THETHPHANTOM]

i'm heard recently that the 1.4 billion was a lie even before this new crisis started so them finally admitting it means the problem is so extreme even if they kept quiet we would all start noticing anyway

[loot]

Unfortunately it's too little too late, they already have too few young people due to the incredibly low births during the and too many old people due to the extreme number born in the years before that. It takes 20 years to get new young people..

[shermanpeabody]

With a population of 1.4 Billion, this is actually good news.

[tonygia]

Population shrink and aging is not a proble for production side, beacause AI/robotic and automation will greately reduce the workers needed, but it do pose a huge problem for consumption, but china is sill a developing country, it could increase individual consumption to increase the overal consumption.

[loot]

Still Wion does nothing about its spam. Only they can fix the problem since I've already reported the accounts and youtube does nothing about it. Only Wion seems to have this spam too.

[nopenope]

🤣
Can't stop laughing....
China and population shrinking in one sentence....

[snoopy]

89 dollars a month is not even close to what is required to raise a child. Not a great inventive at all.

[anwiycti]

There is a trust crisis there, hard to say these policies will work..

[shakim]

What a genius administration. Pay people $2800 to have a whole baby. Yeah right