One- Child Policy Ends! What will happen? (Comment)

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/china-ends-one-child/2225922.html

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/china-ends-one-child/2225922.html

One- child policy was a strict policy for Chinese families, which allow one family can only have one child since 1979. It helped China to control her population efficiently while it also infringed the right of Chinese citizens. The public and experts have argued the pros and cons of the policy for a long time because many people were not satisfied with it. However, it releases in recent, which lead tons of comments from all over the world. Most medias think that it is too late to release. Browsing my friend—Phyllis’s Blog, I found that we have some similar opinion.

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1873987/china-abandon-three-decade-old-one-child-policy-driving

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1873987/china-abandon-three-decade-old-one-child-policy-driving

Although the policy helps China to control her booming population in that generation, it caused a lot of problems in nowadays. China is facing an aging population and a lack of working-age recently so our country needs more young people. However, the release may not as effective as the government thinks. The young in our generation do not highly desire to have more than one child because of the different custom and high burden of child- bearing. My parents want to get more children because they are familiar with a large family with many children liked their childhood, while we are not. Also, as Phyllis’s mention, Chinese human resource market is competitive and supporting our parents without searching help from siblings is stressful. The young generation may not have enough money to breed two children.

Furthermore, ignoring the voice of the young generation and considering the environmental sustainability, the government should solve the problem of shortage of resources in the future. More population means more demand for products. Does our country have enough resource to support more population and be environmental friendly? In my opinion, government should not only release the one child policy. Meanwhile, the government should have more policy to encourage the young and plan to cushion the resource shortage which may happen in future.

 

Reference 

http://time.com/4098745/china-one-child-policy-rights/

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/china-ends-one-child/2225922.html

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