Reflection and Prospect of China’s Birth Controlling Policy:Thinking from “Couples to Have a Second Baby If Either Is an Only Child”
Author(s): XU Jun, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University
Pages: 109-118
Year: 2014 Issue: 6
Journal: Population & Economics
Keyword: China’s birth controlling policy; the population problem; reflection; the policy of "couples to have a second baby if either is an only child"; prospect;
Abstract: The implementation of China’s one-child policy has been a whole generation,which produces not only the effect of controlling and slowing down population growth,but also a very high social cost. Scientific reflection and evaluation of gain and loss of the birth controlling policy not only involves how to treat the value orientation and interest appeal of the birth controlling stakeholders,but also is a realistic need to deepen the cognition of the law of population and economic and social development. Given the big population and economic and social risk which arises from long-running policies,the paper insists that the policy of "couples to have a second baby if either is an only child"can be only used as a short transition policy,the government should abandon the traditional concept of population-be-burden and let go two births as soon as possible,advocate moderate fertility,so as to promote the population long-term balanced development, and to realize the sustainable prosperity of the Chinese nation.
Pages: 109-118
Year: 2014 Issue: 6
Journal: Population & Economics
Keyword: China’s birth controlling policy; the population problem; reflection; the policy of "couples to have a second baby if either is an only child"; prospect;
Abstract: The implementation of China’s one-child policy has been a whole generation,which produces not only the effect of controlling and slowing down population growth,but also a very high social cost. Scientific reflection and evaluation of gain and loss of the birth controlling policy not only involves how to treat the value orientation and interest appeal of the birth controlling stakeholders,but also is a realistic need to deepen the cognition of the law of population and economic and social development. Given the big population and economic and social risk which arises from long-running policies,the paper insists that the policy of "couples to have a second baby if either is an only child"can be only used as a short transition policy,the government should abandon the traditional concept of population-be-burden and let go two births as soon as possible,advocate moderate fertility,so as to promote the population long-term balanced development, and to realize the sustainable prosperity of the Chinese nation.
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