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    SOLVING A POPULATION PUZZLE

    May 20, 2021 4 minutes
    By Yang Ge

    How should we regard China’s demographic changes and related issues at a time of heated discussions about new births hitting a record low, the population about to see negative growth and the aging process accelerating? How should China address the population issue from the long-term perspective?

    Is the decline in birthrate an inevitable result of economic and social development? To some extent, the answer is yes, at least from the 200-year human history of industrial civilization.

    In the 1740s, the First Industrial Revolution was initiated in the United Kingdom, and from the 1870s its population growth

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