China's population policy in the international perspective: Family Planning and change

Financial Digest, 7th 2009, click here to view all financial news Pictures family planning, a once controversial, and then achieved a high level of national policy, the Chinese should be not unfamiliar.　　"Guangming" 1979 issued a "wrong batch of a person, mistakenly increased by 300 million", the 1980 state formally introduced compulsory family planning, so that, for the urban family one-child family planning policy and reform and opening-up basic synchronization, engaged in 30 years. No one can arbitrarily negate the results of family planning. A study published by the National Population Development Research Group in early 2007 shows that China has had fewer than 400 million people since its full implementation of family planning, dismantled the "population explosion" fuze, and postponed the world's 6 billion population day by 4 years, And more than half a century ahead of other developing population countries into the ranks of the low fertility level.　　This is probably the biggest contribution that family planning has made to China and the world. Until now, the Chinese Constitution still incorporates family planning into national strategies and the basic obligations of citizens, the Constitution? Rule 25th stipulates: "The State promotes family planning to make population growth compatible with economic and social development plans." "The basic rights and duties of Citizens", chapter II of the Constitution, also stipulates that "both spouses have an obligation to carry out family planning."　　"However, the so-called national policy is not immutable and needs to be adjusted in the new situation and in the new environment." Scholars ' opinions are more specific. Recently, the president of Renmin University of China Ji Baocheng called for a speedy adjustment and improvement of the family planning policy. He suggested that the current "one child" policy be gradually changed to "advocate the birth of one, allowing the birth of two, to prevent the birth of three".　　and the network of demography, sociology of the Family Planning policy summary and reflection are numerous. In fact, the focus of the debate is whether China's family planning policy has achieved its goal, or at least phased in.　　If this is not a problem, then the adjustment of population policy is inevitable. This cover article invites the University of Wisconsin Obstetrics and gynecology researcher I Fu to write a special article, from the international point of view of the need to adjust China's population policy. The article thinks, now China has become the mainstay of the world economy.　　While China is enjoying the demographic dividend, the negative effects of family planning are now being revealed and will face serious demographic liabilities in the future. And the group of Thailand, India, South Korea and Taiwan region of China's population policy, but also compared to the Asian region in the geographical and humanistic environment of family planning, and some countries and regions for the population may have negative growth headache. This may in some sense provide a reference for China's demographic policy adjustment.