China to stay with one-child rule CNN Thursday, December 28, 2006 China has no plans to change its one-child policy, Premier Wen Jiabao said, adding family planning was critical to China's modernization plans. The official Xinhua News Agency on Wednesday quoted Wen as saying the "government will adhere to the basic policy of family planning with improved services and stronger leadership." He added that family planning was crucial to China's modernization and the building of a "harmonious society," a catchphrase meant to mean a more equal distribution of riches in a country with a growing wealth gap. Wen told a conference on population and family planning that the family planning priority was China's highly populated countryside, where maintaining a low birth rate was crucial. He said more rewards and subsidies were needed for rural people, including social insurance to encourage birth control. Up to 800 million of China's 1.3 billion people live in the countryside, where children, especially boys, are considered the best way to make up for the country's limited social safety net. The communist government has limited most urban couples to one child and rural couples to two since the 1970s to try to restrain the growth of China's population and conserve scarce resources. Critics say the policy has led to forced abortions, sterilizations and a dangerously imbalanced sex ratio due to a traditional preference for male heirs, which has prompted countless families to abort female fetuses in hopes of getting boys. Government statistics show that 117 boys are born for every 100 girls in China, well above the average for industrialized countries of between 104 and 107 boys for every 100 girls. Experts have said the gender imbalance resulting from sex-selective abortions and other practices could have dangerous social consequences due to anticipated shortages of marriageable young women. State Councilor Hua Jianmin was quoted as telling the same conference that gender identification for non-medical purposes would be severely punished and policies advocating the rights of girls and women as well as gender equality and birth control would be promoted. There are also concerns about China's aging population, with those aged 60 or older expected to top 200 million by 2015 and 280 million by 2025, according to the government. Last month, Zhang Weiqing, the minister in charge of the State Population and Family Planning Commission, said China's population would be 400 million higher if not for the government's family planning policies. http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2006/281206onechild.htm
I can understand how limiting the population would help, but forced abortions is just wrong. Plus in a few dacades china is gunna be fucked because there's gunna be no girls there and less kids with the few women that are there.
i'm not sure why i'm saying this in a china thread, but... i went to college and a korean guy was in a few of my classes and he and i talked in the computer lab. we were talking about world shit and he was telling me how N. korea keeps its soldiers malnurished purposefully so it will be a smaller target when the enemy is shooting....
The one child plan is only effective if implemented correctly. I believe France has it right, if I'm correct France will give a family tax breaks, and pay for education for the first two children, after that... and third, fourth, etc. child the family chooses to have will recieve no government funding. That's a great way to do it!!! China is ona good path with theone child rule, however, I have been for quite a while now VERY sick of the tactics they use to implement it... very wrong. It's disgusting, and I'd much rather see overpopulation then some of the shit that the Chinese government does in order to enforce this. So, is it a good thing to limit to one child? Yes.... But dig deeper into how the Chinese implement it, and you'll soon find it's not a good thing.
In the future, governments should mandate that people be fitted with implants that render them infertile. If a person wishes to have a child, they will be judged based on IQ, finances, age, family health history, psychiatric evaluation, etc.
A wall of a stree I live in China (I study here) has been repaint with a slogan saying "Let's follow the birth planning for the wellness of the country". The one-child-policy is called birth planning here.
Ever see that 400lb white-trash women, with about 6 teeth, wearing now bra with just a tank-top clinging to life over her massive utters, struggling to walk, her legs wobble for the enormous girth she's trying to get some motion in, smoking in the car with her 12 children? Pulling up in a 1972 olds with no hub-cabs, rust and down to the primer? Looks like they've been living in squalor most of their lives? Sometimes I feel like some people shouldn't be allowed to breed. Then, I realize, hey, my tax dollars are paying for this family to have the freedom to sponge off the hard-working. Then, I relax with a fatty bowl.
Well when you are living in a nation their size, with the number of people they have, you have to do something. If they didn't stop allowing people to have so many kids, the nation would be overrun and no-one would have anywhere to eat. People would be jobless because everyone would already have a job. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Of course. But to force abortions is not cool. Everyone should have the choice on how many kids they want to have. They should start handing out mass amounts of condoms, but hell i bet most ruaul people dont even know what a condom is, let alone how to use one. Natural Selection will filter people out eventually. And the population will dwindle to a more conservative number. I wonder if they have ever tried forced relocation. This would be alot better than forcing abortions and such IMO.
do you know how many people they have in china? there's nothing wrong with what they're doing, but maybe how theyre doing it. I agree with the tax thing, that's probably the best way to do it.
I know its China but FUCK it must be wack without siblings. I got 3 younger bros and idk wat i would do without em. I use to blame all kind of shit on them when they were babys haha.
If overpopulation is bad now, just think how bad it will be in 20, 50 or even 100 years. No wonder our planet is withering away... there's way too many of us living on it. China has taken some pretty drastic measures, but you can't really blame them. They've got over a billion people already... imagine constantly trying to cram more and more people into an already overpopulated country.
Exactly! Has anyone ever actually looked to see what most scientists consider to be the maximum number of people the Earth's resources can support?? It's somewhere in the range of 10-13 billion people most probably. That's 3-6 billion more people than exist today. With an increasing global population rate of 2%, we will be at carrying capacity within 25 years. This will be our problem. For those of you who say that somehow limiting the population is wrong, I can see your point from a moral standpoint. I agree forced abortion is fucked. However, if something is not done, we are all fucked. I'm an environmental science major, and I study this kind of information all the time. The Malthusian viewpoint says that once the population breaches Earth's carrying capacity, there will be a massive die-off. I don't mean massive like 1 million people, I mean massive like 10-12 billion people. If the global population continues to increase, we will certainly run out of resources to support it. I do not mean just oil, natural gas, and gold; I mean fresh water, untainted air to breathe, and plants to turn the CO2 into 02. Global population increase is an absolutely HUGE problem. Something must be done about it. I'm glad that a country with as much power as China realizes it, even if it's not with the best of intentions in mind. P.S.- For all the citizens of China to have the same standard of living as the average citizen of the U.S., they would require 4 more Earths worth of natural resources. Think about that.