News Analysis
The Chinese regime declared on Aug. 1 that China’s population has begun to decline, and the problems of aging and low birthrate have become worse.
This is the first time that Beijing has announced its population is in a phase of negative growth since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took power in 1949.
“China’s total fertility rate (TFR) was lower than 1.3 in recent years … Women’s willingness to have children continues to decline,” The National Health Commission wrote in state-run Qiushi magazine on Aug. 1. “Women of reproductive age desire to have 1.64 children on average in 2021. This is less than 1.73 in 2019 and 1.76 in 2017.”…