I’ve seen a street interview from Asian Boss (a channel that aims to avoid global conflict by creating a bridge between westerners and asians) about birthrates in different Asian countries including China.

It was obvious that Chinese young people were less in a doomer mindset than the people in Japan and in the occupied part of Korea. However they still didn’t want to have kids and cited unemployment. This is something I have heard a lot, that unemployment was high among the youth and that higher education was expensive.

One biais the channel is accused of is that they almost only interview people in Shanghai, rarely Beijing, never another city. As we know Shanghai is a special economic zone and has a liberal local government.

So my question is, how true is that and what is happening at the state level on that subject?