Tag: demographic dividend

China’s Population Heading Toward Negative Growth

Beijing has admitted for the first time that China’s population will experience negative growth by 2025, according to an article from China’s National Health Commission, published Aug. 1 in Qiushi, a state-controlled magazine. The article predicts that the declining population trend may prove difficult to reverse, with dire consequences for the country. Entitled “Writing a…


Key Issues About China’s Demographics Overlooked

Commentary After China announced the results of its seventh national census, various criticisms immediately followed, mostly focusing on the serious distortion of facts. Falsification of statistical data is a systemic disease that has existed in China since the founding of the Chinese communist regime. Before the authorities implemented the one-child policy in 1980, which aroused…