China’s Demographic Dilemma and Potential Solutions

China’s Demographic Dilemma and Potential Solutions
Author: Long Mo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-03-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789811014901

This book is a quantitative assessment of the challenges China faces as it tries to achieve the twin goals of mitigating the effects of population aging while containing the overall size of the population. After a close examination of the impact of China’s fertility policies on the country’s population structure and size, the author presents empirical evidence for the effectiveness of finely calibrated easing of the country’s decades-long birth control policies for both of these objectives. This research uses an innovative quantitative indicator—the Aging and Economic Coordination Index (AECI)—to measure the macroeconomic pressure population aging places on the country. This is the first time the AECI has been systematically applied to gauge the magnitude and the trends of that pressure for the 1980–2050 period, and to provide the basis for policy suggestions about what might be done to ease that pressure.

The Hope of the Country with a Large Population

The Hope of the Country with a Large Population
Author: Xueyuan Tian
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2014-01-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 364240832X

China has the largest population in the world. However, according to the United Nations, India and China are expected to simultaneously reach a population of approximately 1.38 billion by 2030, with India taking a slight lead. China will be all too happy to surrender its position as the country with the largest population. Where does this attitude come from? For China, this situation is symbolic of the solution to the excessive population and a milestone in the “Three-Stage” population development strategy, as well as the people’s hope. In order to realize this hope, it firstly depends on the transformation from the previous high birth rate, high death rate, and low growth rate of population, to a high birth rate, low death rate, and high growth rate, and finally to a low birth rate, low death rate, and low growth rate. It also relies on the “post-demographic transition” to a low fertility level since the 1990s, and secondly, is closely related to the population change in the future. Therefore, in-depth studies on population and the development of population, resources, environment, economy, and society should be conducted on the basis of fresh experiences and theories from the international community, in order to move forward with the times to promote the solution to the population problem and realize the dream of rejuvenating the Chinese nation. As a result, population change is linked to this great rejuvenation, as the great rejuvenation requires the population change and, in turn, the population change facilitates the great rejuvenation.

China's Population

China's Population
Author: Gabe T. Wang
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2018-12-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429871503

Published in 1999, this text sets out to provide an historical, present and futuristic understanding of China's enormous population problems. It sets out to provide a fundamental understanding of China through an understanding of its population problems and the efforts to control them. With the world's largest population, China has a dynamic economy and is emerging as a world power. This book aims to provide a comprehensive discussion on issues relating to China's population in English, based on historical and macro-level analysis of Chinese society.

China’s Changing Population

China’s Changing Population
Author: Judith Banister
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 1004
Release: 1987
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0804718873

In this comprehensive analysis of thirty-five years of population change in the People's Republic of China, the author highlights China's shifting population policies and pieces together the available data, assessing and adjusting them as necessary in order to discover the actual population changes.

Modern China Studies

Modern China Studies
Author: Edward Jow Ching Tu
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2018-09-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781727533637

Several new developments in the economy, government policy, and technology warrant a revisit on the population issue in China. First, in 2015 the Chinese government announced that it would allow couples to have two children. Second, anecdotal evidence suggests that many wealthy and middle-class Chinese are migrating from China to developed countries such as North America, Europe, and Australia. Third, the rapid development in medical sciences and artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing how the elderlies live and are cared for. All these changes call for a revisit on the issues of population in China. We need to carefully re-consider from scientific point of view the following questions: What are the population problems in contemporary China? Is population growth a problem? If it is, in terms of what--population size, birth rates, death rates, age composition (fraction of working age, working, elderly, retired, school age, military age, etc.), sex ratio (at birth), marital status, educational attainment, health, migrant origin, urban-rural, ethnic, reproductive health services, food, water and other critical inputs, waste removal capacity, general environmental situation, etc.? What is the impact of the new two-child policy? What is its effect on fertility rate? Is it effective in slowing down aging? Does it change people's attitude toward having children? What is the impact of Chinese migration on China and the world? What is the magnitude of wealthy and middle-class Chinese migrating to the developed countries? What is the impact of such migration-economic, political, and cultural-on the home country and host country? How does the technological development impact aging in China? Specifically, how does the advancement in medical sciences affect aging in China? How does the development in artificial intelligence and the robot industry affect old age care in China? In sum, how do the above new issues affect the population issue in China, and what policies should we recommend to the government? To address these issues, we publish seven papers in this volume: New Emigration from China: Patterns, Causes and Impacts Regional Determinants of Residential Intention of Migrants in China: Evidence from the Chinese National Migrants Dynamic Monitoring Survey in 2015 Exit and Voice: Mainland China's Talent Policy and Taiwan's Weak Response during the Ma Administration Can One-way permit system alleviate labor shortage in Hong Kong? The Family Structure and Family Development Ability in China: Based on the China Family Panel Studies A Study on the Changing Trend of Health Indicators of the Elderly in Mainland China: 1998-2014 Fertility Intention among Tibetan Women in Lhasa

The Population of Modern China

The Population of Modern China
Author: Dudley L. Poston Jr.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 750
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1489912312

Student~ interested in world populations and demography inevitably need to know China. As the most populous country of the world, China occupies a unique position in the world population system. How its population is shaped by the intricate interplays among factors such as its political ideology and institutions, economic reality, government policies, sociocultural traditions, and ethnic divergence represents at once a fascinating and challenging arena for investigatIon and analysis. Yet, for much of the 20th century, while population studies have developed into a mature science, precise information and sophisticated analysis about the Chinese population had largely remained either lacking or inaccessible, first because of the absence of systematic databases due to almost uninterrupted strife and wars, and later because the society was closed to the outside observers for about three decades since 1949. Since the end of the Cultural Revolution, things have dramatically changed. China has embarked on an ambitious reform program where modernization became the utmost goal of societal mobilization. China could no longer afford to rely on imprecise census or survey information for population-related studies and policy planning, nor to remaining closed to the outside world. Both the gathering of more precise information and access to such information have dramatically increased in the 1980s. Systematic observations, analyses and reporting about the Chinese population have surfaced in the population literature around the globe.