What we haven’t seen, yet, is a big push by the CCP to mandate that their women get married and have kids.
As in, if you are an unmarried woman at 25, or don’t have at least 2 kids by 30, then no social credit score for you.
Then again, having lots of women leave the workforce to have kids might collapse China’s already shaky economy.
Even that’s not going to work. They don’t have *time* left. The nasty wake of One Child is that the number of girls born per year continued to decline and since there were lots of horny guys for each girl, a lot of the girls emigrated and left. And the CCP didn’t figure this out until far too late.
I wonder also, about birth control in China.
Is birth control readily available and used widely? If so, since China is a totalitarian country , the Communist Party could issue decrees to restrict birth control and restrict abortion. That would help increase their birth rate.
And there would be inducements such as you mentioned about the social credit score.
How crazy is it , they pushed the one child policy for decades and now they have decided that was not in the best interest of their society.
“One reason for the sharp decline is that China is running short of women of childbearing age”
Putin is engaged in the effort now to encourage women to have more children. Since Russia appears to have the world’s highest abortion rate, I assume he will make some effort to prevent Russian women to also be voting with their uteri. I think China also has a very high abortion rate as well. I was surprised recently to see that Pakistan’s population is roughly the same size as ours in the US.