Monday 21 July 2008
11/01/2008 / CHINE
Why does the state family planning commission focus more on rich people who have more than one child? The reason lies in the rising costs of education, medical care and real estate. This means that common citizens’ livelihood has become more and more difficult, so much so that peasants cannot afford to have more than one child. Hence, there is no longer any need to focus on rural areas.
How does strengthening the one-child policy promote productivity? Because in officials’ minds, productivity is only understood in terms of their economic benefit. Thus in Hunan province, the fine for a second child has been increased (to 1.3 million RMB/ over €120,000).
Rich people and celebrities should be able to fulfill their own birth rights, they are a minority, and the media is always against them, exaggerating numbers. Not only does the state benefit financially from fining the rich, but the press exaggerates stories to perpetuate hate for the rich in the working classes. Rich families have several babies, are able to feed their children, and also fund the family planning commission. (…)
The urgent problem is to stop one-child policy and return people’s birth right.”
If Ma Yinchu’s population theory had been implemented in the 1950s, around 300 million (457 million in fact) people would never have been born between 1959 and 1979, meaning that the number of babies born during that period would have been nearly two-thirds less. In such a case, China would have become a moribund country suffering from age problems and unable to sustain development.
The adoption of a birth control policy was done rashly and without sufficient scientific reasoning, and all predictions made at that time are far from haven been fulfilled. The policy is not beneficial to present times and harmful to the future. The deformity of household consumption patterns resulting from it has been at the roots of China’s economic problems, and the policy itself has threatened China’s sustainable development.
It is misleading to think that China is overpopulated. As a matter of fact, the nation’s overall resources are among the top in the world. (…) Human resources are the most important among all sorts of resources and are China’s biggest advantage in this regard.
(…)
Even if China terminated the current birth control policy, it could hardly prevent the country’s population from dropping dramatically in the future.”
One child policy imposed on the rich
The one-child policy rule has always been enforced more strictly in rural areas of China. While it was originally the poor who had more than one child, it’s now the rich and famous. But at a cost of over €120,000 per child, this may now change. Our Observer Yi Fuxian denounces ‘a policy that ruins future prospects for a supposedly overcrowded population’.
The man writes: birth control: everyone has responsibility;
Then the boy rewrites: birth control: adults have responsibility;
The woman comes, and changes it to: birth control, men have responsibility;
The man comes, and changes it to: birth control, women have responsibility.
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« We should get rid of the one-child policy»
On his blog, Yi Fuxian condemns the family planning commission.
Why does the state family planning commission focus more on rich people who have more than one child? The reason lies in the rising costs of education, medical care and real estate. This means that common citizens’ livelihood has become more and more difficult, so much so that peasants cannot afford to have more than one child. Hence, there is no longer any need to focus on rural areas.
How does strengthening the one-child policy promote productivity? Because in officials’ minds, productivity is only understood in terms of their economic benefit. Thus in Hunan province, the fine for a second child has been increased (to 1.3 million RMB/ over €120,000).
Rich people and celebrities should be able to fulfill their own birth rights, they are a minority, and the media is always against them, exaggerating numbers. Not only does the state benefit financially from fining the rich, but the press exaggerates stories to perpetuate hate for the rich in the working classes. Rich families have several babies, are able to feed their children, and also fund the family planning commission. (…)
The urgent problem is to stop one-child policy and return people’s birth right.”
In his book ‘A big country in an empty nest’, he explains that this policy is not benefitting the Chinese economy. Here’s an extract:
If Ma Yinchu’s population theory had been implemented in the 1950s, around 300 million (457 million in fact) people would never have been born between 1959 and 1979, meaning that the number of babies born during that period would have been nearly two-thirds less. In such a case, China would have become a moribund country suffering from age problems and unable to sustain development.
The adoption of a birth control policy was done rashly and without sufficient scientific reasoning, and all predictions made at that time are far from haven been fulfilled. The policy is not beneficial to present times and harmful to the future. The deformity of household consumption patterns resulting from it has been at the roots of China’s economic problems, and the policy itself has threatened China’s sustainable development.
It is misleading to think that China is overpopulated. As a matter of fact, the nation’s overall resources are among the top in the world. (…) Human resources are the most important among all sorts of resources and are China’s biggest advantage in this regard.
(…)
Even if China terminated the current birth control policy, it could hardly prevent the country’s population from dropping dramatically in the future.”
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