Want China Times, Li Hsin-ju and Staff Reporter 2014-11-02
Applications for parents in China to have a second child have lagged behind expectations after Beijing officially relaxed its one-child policy in November last year, our Chinese-language sister paper Want Daily reports.
A couple with two children in Wuhan, Hubei province. (Photo/CNS) |
Applications for parents in China to have a second child have lagged behind expectations after Beijing officially relaxed its one-child policy in November last year, our Chinese-language sister paper Want Daily reports.
The
national family planning policy previously allowed a couple to have a second
child when both parents were themselves an only child. This was adjusted in
November to permit a second child where either parent is an only child. The
move was regarded as a means to stimulate economic growth as China's
demographic dividend diminishes.
The
National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) had expected this would
lead to more than 2 million additional babies being born each year. However, of
the eligible 11 million couples, only 700,000 had applied to have a second
child as of this August.
When the
one-child policy was first introduced in the late 1970s, there was stricter
control in cities than in rural areas. Now the policy has been loosened,
parents in cities do not have the incentive to have a second child given the
high living expenses including housing and education, said Lu Jiehua, a
sociology professor at Peking University.
Liu
Kaiming, director of the Shenzhen-based Institute of Contemporary Observation,
said the government should encourage parents to have more babies or the labor
force will decrease dramatically 30 years from now.
People
above the age of 60 now account for 14.9% of China's total population, and the
number of seniors is expected to exceed 300 million, a quarter of total
population, by 2030, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics.
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"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)
"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)
“… 3 - Longer Life is Going to Happen, But…
Here is one that is a review. We keep bringing it up because Humans don't believe it. If you're going to start living longer, there are those who are frightened that there will be overpopulation. You've seen the way it is so far, and the geometric progression of mathematics is absolute and you cannot change it. So if you look at the population of the earth and how much it has shifted in the last two decades, it's frightening to you. What would change that progression?
The answer is simple, but requires a change in thinking. The answer is a civilization on the planet who understands a new survival scenario. Instead of a basic population who has been told to have a lot of children to enhance the race [old survival], they begin to understand the logic of a new scenario. The Akashic wisdom of the ages will start to creep in with a basic survival scenario shift. Not every single woman will look at herself and say, "The clock is ticking," but instead can say, "I have been a mother 14 times in a row. I'm going to sit this one out." It's a woman who understands that there is no loss or guilt in this, and actually feels that the new survival attribute is to keep the family small or not at all! Also, as we have said before, even those who are currently ignorant of population control will figure out what is causing babies to be born [Kryon joke].
Part of the new Africa will be education and healing, and eventually a zero population growth, just like some of the first-world nations currently have. Those who are currently tied to a spiritual doctrine will actually have that doctrine changed (watch for it) regarding Human birth. Then they will be able to make free choice that is appropriate even within the establishment of organized religion. You see, things are going to change where common sense will say, "Perhaps it would help the planet if I didn't have children or perhaps just one child." Then the obvious, "Perhaps I can exist economically better and be wiser with just one. It will help the one!" Watch for these changes. For those of you who are steeped in the tradition of the doctrines and would say that sounds outrageously impossible, I give you the new coming pope [Kryon smile]. For those of you who feel that uncontrolled procreation is inevitable, I encourage you to see statistics you haven't seen or didn't care to look at yet about what first-world countries have already accomplished on their own, without any mandates. It's already happening. That was number three.….”
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