Mary Meng works for a Urban Chinese tech company in Shanghai, and she is so busy and stressed out that she finds it impossible to imagine having another child.
The 37-year-old mother of a primary school boy claimed that she didn’t even have time to spend with her child because of the pressures of her job. “How am I supposed to think about raising two kids? I’m not sure.
That speaks to people living in cities everywhere. However, demographers argue Beijing should take a more urgent approach to addressing the effect of fast-paced, high-cost city life on birth rates given the rate of population decline and ageing in China.
Mothers are rapidly running out in China. By the end of the century, the number of women of reproductive age—defined by the UN as those between the ages of 15 and 49—is expected to have decreased by more than two-thirds, to fewer than 100 million.
China last month unveiled plans to create a “birth-friendly society” at a twice-decade top political conference, promising to carry out policies that population experts have long advocated for, like reducing the cost of childcare and education.
However, as Reuters reported, Beijing also promised to push more people into cities, much to the dismay of the same experts.
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