Beijing: China wants women to have more children but for many young people, the great promise of the government from support means a little because it jumps the cost of living and changes the mindset about the family.
On Monday, the populous nation in the world then loosens strict family planning control, allowing partners to have three children after only 12 million Chinese born last year – a record low.
But the high cost, limited space and social norms formed by decades boundaries in the family size will hamper efforts to increase the population of 1.41 billion China, experts warn.
“Many women around me are quite disgusted by the idea of having children,” said Master’s 22-year-old Master Yan Jiaqi told AFP in Beijing.
“So don’t talk about having three,” he said.
In 2016, China relaxes “one-child policy” – one of the most stringent family planning regulations in the world – allows partners to have two children because of concerns installed on aging and economic stagnation.
The latest easing is part of an increasingly desperate effort to stir the demographic boom before the extraordinary Chinese growth story of the jammed by health and retirement bills for hundreds of millions of parents.
For the communist leadership the country succeeded, it must persuade people like Shengyi, a father two years old 29 years old, to have one child again.
When he visited the Beijing toy store with his family, who said the two young men were more than enough in the competitive extortion of the Chinese capital.
“We don’t have that much money and there isn’t enough space at home, so I don’t think there is a reason to have the third child,” he told AFP.
“When our second child was born, suddenly there was only half of everything, and where we initially could give every 100 percent child we can now only provide 50 percent.”
For others, thinking has children in all or even marriage outside the table, because urban life takes a highway – long working hours, expensive housing, and stairs that punish to be a decent education.
Today’s young people “may not have thoughts about running a family name, and feel that the quality of their own life is more important,” Yan Jiaqi said.
The increasingly permeated attitude has been worried about Chinese leaders, encouraging Monday’s policy pivot.
The third child? No, thank you, say young Chinese
China’s fertility rates stand at 1.3 – below the level needed to maintain a stable population (file)