Posted on 07/18/2016 7:46:34 AM PDT by C19fan
The built the housing, now they need more people? Results of top-down planning writ large.
They look maintained, at least. Must keep a lot of workers employed.
The Chinese government has recognized the harm that the 1 child policy (which has loopholes, incidentally - You can have more than one child, you just have to pay the penalty cost for the additional licenses) has done to their demographics. They are openly talking about ways to avoid the demographic collapse that Japan is in.
I suspect they will continue encouraging Chinese citizens to live overseas - to reduce the population pressures in the mainland for the near term future. Most Chinese people that I’ve spoken with view this as a temporary situation, though, and are fully prepared to return home once the country is in a “more stable situation.”
Nope, it’s all part of the long term plan. They are moving people from the countryside into these new cities, as a way to not only improve their control and oversight of the population, but to “improve services to rural populations” (who often don’t have ANY access to medicine or education, Communist propaganda notwithstanding).
Chinese people can’t afford to buy them.
But the Glorious Building Program Goes On!
The one child policy was mostly applied to the Han Chinese. Other ethnic groups were exempted from the policy and there were many exceptions to the policy as well, such as a daughter being the first child then a second child would be permitted.
If my memory serve me right (and it may not) I think the one-child policy has expired and now they have a two-child policy.
First, they don’t have the water resources for a population that high. Second, a population that dense will have a birthrate collapse.
There had been a one child population for a generation, and it cut down the birthrate. However, it isn’t just births that affect population. The average lifespan for Chinese has increased from the mid 40s to 78-80. today
This. Exacerbated by the one-child policy that led to girl-child infanticide and a LOT more males than females. What they have is a serious surplus of young males with no hope of an economic future, scarcity of resources, and no hope of procreation. Perfect combination for either an uprising or creating a huge army.
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