A top advisory body to the Chinese Communist regime, the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference ( CPPCC), convened on Saturday to discuss the ongoing population crisis.
The chairman of the committee, Wang Huning, advised using” Communist People Theory” to “analyze the new community tendencies, traits, and difficulties that China faces”.
Marxist Population Theory was not fully explained in the state-run Global Times ‘  accounts of Saturday’s meeting or how Wang intended to use it to improve the country’s population. Despite using a range of means, including war and political deaths to enforced hunger, Marxism excels at killing people, but its track record for a healthier community development is more ambiguous.
Karl Marx’s “population idea” mainly consisted of believing that more workers producing more productivity was great, provided they did not die — which, as mentioned, is one of the things Marxism has difficulty with. One of his criticisms of capitalism was that he believed that overcrowding may result from low wages and hungry labor demands from the capitalists, giving workers no motivating reason to stop having children.
Illustration of Karl Marx ( 1818- 1883 )
Marx believed that there were too many Separatists in China at the time, leading to strict family size limits, forced abortions, and forced abortions. A large part of the current crisis is attributable to how cruelly powerful the One Child Policy was.
The conference’s briefings made it seem as though the 100-member council did little to suggest that China is presently using, with little success, to stop its people from freefall.
Foreign Vice Premier Liu Guozhong, a part of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, stressed that efforts should be made to increase targeted and effective measures of reproduction assistance, and reduce the costs of reproduction, child- rearing, and education.
” It is necessary to accelerate the improvement of population governance capacity and standards, coordinate and provide services for the elderly and children, promote the construction of a fertility- polite society, and accelerate the shaping of a higher- quality population development trend with superb quality, sufficient quantity, streamlined structure, and reasonable distribution, in order to support China’s modernization through high- quality population development”, Liu said, as quoted by the People’s Daily.  ,
Wang Peian, a CPPCC member and former family planning official, told the Global Times that the solution would “include increasing economic support, improving childcare services, optimizing time support, strengthening intergenerational care support, enhancing cultural guidance, and strengthening reproductive health services.”
China is increasing child subsidies to encourage new parents. Total one- time subsidy packages are more than$ 4, 000 U. S. in some areas, a very high sum for Chinese workers. A village in the southern Guangdong province is offering additional subsidies for a second child and an even bigger reward for a third child. This is a reasonable move given the importance of three-child families in the growth of the population, but it is also a remarkable change from China’s slow, grudging abandonment of the One Child Policy.
In the lobby of Bangkok’s Piyavate Hospital on May 17, 2018, a Chinese advertisement for in vitro fertilization is visible in this image ( LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images ).
Guangdong is the country’s top fertility rate, perhaps as a result of the bustling job market and its position as a major industrial hub, and it was innovative in offering incentives for childbirth. This appears to be leading national government planners to believe that reviving Guangdong’s policies and conditions is the best course of action to stop population decline.
Wang Peian told the Global Times:
Less and Less Young People Desire to Have Kids. This is caused by a number of factors, including higher education, which can affect plans to marry and start a family, the high cost of raising children in contemporary society, and the decline of traditional family values. These changes have resulted in smaller family sizes and a trend toward delayed marriages and DINK ( dual income, no children ) households.
Wang noticed signs of optimism in a slight rise in baby births over the previous year:
People are expected to have a positive impact on the birth rate in addition to the preference for having children during the Chinese Year of the Dragon’s birth, the phase-out of the COVID-19 pandemic, an increase in the number of marriages, and the improvement of fertility policies.
Some of the factors Wang mentioned are ephemeral, like the pandemic and the Chinese Zodiac. The increase in childcare subsidies has not been as successful as anticipated, perhaps because the opportunity cost for young people to get married and have children is still too high for them to bear. In a troubled economy and a highly competitive job market, it’s difficult to imagine a subsidy large enough to irritate students who are raising their teens.
