China's population shrank in 2022 for the first time in more than 60 years, a new milestone in the country's deepening demographic crisis with significant implications for its slowing economy.
i can only hope that measures such as automation, ubi, and elderly care are accelerated in the decades to come.
it doesn’t require breathless western panic to recognize the problems an aging and shrinking population poses. basic logic dictates that more retirees means more of a drain on resources that could be better spent elsewhere, and less labor in general (not everything can be automated).
I didn’t mean to talk down the difficulty of such demographic trends. But all I see from western media on the subject is projecting all the problems and failures capitalist nations have with an aging population onto China. To really consider how China is addressing this I’d be more interested in Party literature and what the 5 year plans have to say on the topic.
it doesn’t require breathless western panic to recognize the problems an aging and shrinking population poses. basic logic dictates that more retirees means more of a drain on resources that could be better spent elsewhere, and less labor in general (not everything can be automated).
I didn’t mean to talk down the difficulty of such demographic trends. But all I see from western media on the subject is projecting all the problems and failures capitalist nations have with an aging population onto China. To really consider how China is addressing this I’d be more interested in Party literature and what the 5 year plans have to say on the topic.