2023-11-04 01:23:03
Mainland China is currently facing a crisis of negative population growth. (Illustration/Associated Press)
In response to the problem of subpopulation growth caused by China’s plummeting birth rate, when the leader of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping, attended the National Women’s Congress, he requested that young people’s views on marriage, love, and family concepts such as childbirth be strengthened, and he also set goals for women to get married and have children.
According to a report by the New York Times Chinese website, the 13th National Congress of Chinese Women concluded in October. This is the highest-level political meeting for women held every five years, but most of the speeches were made by men. Xi Jinping said at the closing ceremony that a new culture of marriage and childbearing must be actively cultivated, and that CCP officials have the obligation to strengthen young people’s views on marriage, love, childbirth, and family, and use the Women’s Conference to set the goal of “getting married and having children” for Chinese women.
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China is facing a crisis of negative population growth and the biggest economic challenge in 40 years. The population has shrunk for the first time since the 1960s. In the past, the authorities have proposed plans to encourage childbirth and pay bonuses, or provide tax incentives; the CCP Due to the current slowdown in the economy, women are being pushed back to their families to raise children and take care of their elders. Xi Jinping pointed out that this plan is an important part of “Chinese-style modernization.”
It is difficult for the authorities to improve the system of a rapidly aging population, so it is also a trouble-free way for women to return to the family and withdraw from the labor market. Chen Minglu (transliteration), who studies gender and politics in China at The University of Sydney, Australia, said, “China’s political economy has to be considered. Emphasizing the return of women to the family so that they can take care of children and the elderly is beneficial to China.” The United States. Liu Hanzhang (transliteration), a professor of Chinese politics at Pitzer College in Southern California, pointed out that the current place that mainland women should have in society is to stay at home and take care of the family.
However, young people in mainland China are worried regarding the future due to problems such as the economy and rising unemployment. Moreover, China is also one of the countries with the highest cost of raising children in the world. Even though Xi Jinping has repeatedly called on women to regard having children as their own responsibility, but wants to It is unlikely that China will reverse its negative population growth trend by increasing its fertility rate unless the CCP marginalizes childless women and puts them at a disadvantage.
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A professor of political science at Vassar College in New York, surnamed Su, said that during China’s “one-child” policy, the CCP used fines, forced abortions, and sterilization to try to slow down population growth for decades. This policy was not ended until 2015. Therefore, although this possibility is unlikely, it is not completely impossible. “If the CCP can sacrifice women’s bodies and reproductive rights for the one-child policy, the CCP may once once more impose its will on women.”
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