Tag: one-child policy
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China Moves to Reverse Slumping Birth Rates With Condom Tax and Childcare Subsidies
China Turns to Tax and Subsidies in Birth-Rate Push In a bold move aimed at reversing a decades-long decline in births, China announced a fresh set of policies designed to encourage childbirth. The changes include a new 13% tax on condoms and related contraceptives, alongside substantial cuts to childcare costs beginning January 1. The government…
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China’s Demographic Dilemma: After the One-Child Policy, Birth Rates Still Lag
Introduction: A Demographic Turning Point for China China’s decision to end its decades-long one-child policy a decade ago set off a complex shift in population dynamics. While the policy change aimed to boost birth rates and ensure a younger workforce, the country now confronts a stubborn demographic crisis: lower-than-expected fertility, a rapidly aging population, and…
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One-Child Policy Ends, Birth Rates Stagnate: China’s Fight to Baby Up the Population
The Demographic Crosswinds after the One-Child Policy Ten years after China ended its famously restrictive one-child policy, the country faces a demographic crossroads. The celebrated official policy shift in 2015 and the further relaxation to a three-child limit in 2021 did little to lift birth rates. A growing share of Chinese households is composed of…
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China’s One-Child Policy Aftermath: Can Incentives Reignite Births in a Modern Era
New chapter for a population in transition Ten years after China ended the one-child policy, the country faces a stark demographic challenge: birth rates remain stubbornly low and the population continues to age. Policymakers have shifted from strict limits to a suite of incentives, yet the cultural, economic, and social forces at play are proving…
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China Social Media Roasts One-Child Policy as Population Control Chief Dies
Background: From Policy Pioneer to Public Reckoning China’s one-child policy, once touted as the engine of economic growth and social stability, has resurfaced in public discourse with renewed intensity after the death of Peng Peiyun, who led the Family Planning Commission from 1988 to 1998. State media memorialized her role in implementing a policy that…
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Backlash on China’s One-Child Policy: Social Media Critiques After Population Control Leader Peng Peiyun’s Death
China’s One-Child Policy in the Spotlight as Debates Reignite The death of Peng Peiyun, who led China’s Family Planning Commission from 1988 to 1998 during the height of the one-child policy, has sparked a wave of online critique rather than official mourning. In a country where state media traditionally controls the narrative around patriarchs and…
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One-Child Policy Fallout: China Reacts as Policy Architect Peng Peiyun Dies
Public Gateway to a Controversial Era When news broke of Peng Peiyun’s death, the former head of China’s Family Planning Commission (1988–1998), social media in China did not merely mourn a high-ranking official. It exploded with debates about the one-child policy that she helped shepherd through a defining era of Chinese demographics. Instead of tributes,…
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Peng Peiyun: From Enforcer to Reformer of China’s One-Child Policy
Overview Peng Peiyun, a senior Chinese Communist Party official who played a pivotal role in implementing and eventually reforming China’s one-child policy, has died at age 95. Her career traced a remarkable arc, moving from the rigid enforcement of population controls to influential positions that helped shift the policy toward relaxation and its ultimate abolition.…
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Peng Peiyun, 95, Dies; Official Renounced China’s One-Child Policy
Tribute to a Controversial Engineer of China’s Population Policy Peng Peiyun, a longtime Communist Party official who helped shape the nation’s most infamous population policy, died at age 95. Her career spanned from the height of the one-child policy’s enforcement to its eventual dismantling, reflecting the dramatic shifts in China’s approach to demographics, social policy,…
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Peng Peiyun: From Enforcer of China’s One-Child Policy to Advocate for Its Ending
A pivotal figure in China’s family planning saga Peng Peiyun, a longtime Chinese Communist Party official whose career spanned from enforcing one of the country’s most controversial population policies to guiding its eventual shift away from that policy, has died at the age of 95. Her life mirrored China’s demographic ambitions and its evolving approach…