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Think Tank Urges End to One Child Policy
Thursday, November 1, 2012 18:20
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Ahead of the National Party Congress later this month, China's controversial one-child policy is coming into the limelight. One think tank that is affiliated with China's State Council says the 32-year-old restriction should come to an end within three years. In the China Development Research Foundation report, it argues that there are gender imbalances among the Chinese people, and that the policy is no longer useful. It says the policy should be phased out by the year 2020. In the report, Nankai Univeristy populations studies specialist Li Jiamin says, (quote) “It is just a matter of finding the right solution. Making the jump to two children is only a matter of time now.” He went on to say (quote), “If China sticks to the one-child policy, we are looking at a situation as bad as the one in southern Europe. Old people will make up a third of the population by 2050.” Estimates say the one-child policy has prevented anywhere from 100 million births to 400 million births, sometimes through brutal means such as forced abortions. And according to the Bureau of Statistics, China's population over 60-years-old is at an all-time high of 177 million, and still growing. By 2013, China's National Committee on Aging predicts that there will be over 200 million people over 60 in China. Rural couples have long been allowed to have more than one child, especially if the first one is a girl. For many Chinese, having a boy is paramount to carry on the family name. Since the report was …
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