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This thread is an open discussion, welcome all to engage in healthy and fact-based discussion.
America's demographic disasters:
what can we learn and prevent in China?
China is a civilisation state, unlike the newly fabricated immigration states like Australia, Canada, USA, etc.
We are still reading those poems and essays written by our ancestors several thousand years ago from our elementary Chinese textbook to college Chinese textbook.
When our babies start to talk, they will learn Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai's poem 静夜思, and learn to speak those fancy 4-character idioms which dated back to the beginning of our written history. We are proud of our language continuity, cultural cohesion, and civilisational identity. We have ups and downs in history, but our pursuit of a united and centralised civilisation state was always Chinese emperors' priority, continued by modern China's leadership from KMT in 1911 to CPC in 1949.
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China in motion
China' developed East
China's potential, less developed interior
Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, poorest province in China
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Concerning the population and economy size of Australia and Canada (less than Guangdong+Jiangsu Provinces both in GDP and population), what we can learn from the demographic tendency in USA is more constructive for China to enact our own population policies. To ensure a sustainable growth in economy and to create high-quality high-skill/education younger generations, it is advisable to focus on stimulating growth among China's increasing middle class and providing better education (especially vocational education) opportunities to the less wealthier families.
Given what we have learned from immigration countries like US and some traditional social democratic welfare states like Sweden, I suggest that sufficient benefits should be provided, however, the purpose is not to copy the disastrous rat/rabbit-breeding style of population growth as is witnessed among some low-skill/education minorities in US (will become the majority within decades), but to create an equitable pathway for all Chinese citizens to --- wealthy or poor, all intellectual and education-oriented in Chinese nature ----- to raise high-quality and high-skill/education "children" without compromising what we are doing now ---- provide the best surroundings for our "single child". The core of our culture shall never be affected by a hype, a hype in which demographic dividend will continue without noticing the new round of revolution in technology. This round, will be perhaps more revolutional than any one before, radical, brutal and even bloody.
During the era of the ongoing technological revolution, there is a huge decrease of low-skill jobs in the world (already happening). From my observation, there is no such term as demographic dividend during this revolution, only demographic disaster in which excessive low-skill labour makes for social unrests. Such tendency has already begun, we have already started to witness it around the world, not just in poorer developing countries, but also in manufacturing powerhouse like East Asia-ASEAN and Western Europe.
What we need is, high-skill labour with education level either from college or from high-quality vocational schools, especially the latter one which is the core of China's climbing up in the supply chain. The future of China's manufacturing and innovation is not on the low-skill assembling lines which will be eventually replaced by automation by large. The future lies in, DJI, Huawei, BYD, CRRC, Haier, Lenovo, and all other successful or will-be successful Chinese branded products underpinned by innovation and high valued-added industries.
Chinese contestants won the most important gold in WorldSkills 2015
Manufacturing Team Challenge
Skills to rule: East Asia
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To sum up, my advise is:
1, Focus on education. If education and skill trainings can not be achieved, then no second child at all. Rat/rabbit-breading style population growth is much worse than continuing one-child policy.
2, Integrate our population policies with our industrial and technological policies.
3, Avoid immigration from low-skill/education background. The current strict citizenship and residency policies should not be loosed, except for on overseas Chinese and to a lesser extent confucian societies in the same region.
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Background
The Changing Demographic Profile of the United States
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/population/cb12-243.html
Quote
All in all, minorities, now 37 percent of the U.S. population, are projected to comprise 57 percent of the population in 2060. (Minorities consist of all but the single-race, non-Hispanic white population.) The total minority population would more than double, from 116.2 million to 241.3 million over the period.
@Yizhi @Shotgunner51 @TaiShang @Stranagor @cirr @Keel @Jlaw @Place Of Space @FairAndUnbiased @zeronet @Raphael @sweetgrape @Edison Chen @Chinese Bamboo @Chinese-Dragon @cnleio @+4vsgorillas-Apebane @onebyone @yusheng @Kyle Sun @dy1022 @Beast @YoucanYouup @terranMarine @ahojunk @kuge@Economic superpower @Beidou2020 @cirr @JSCh @jkroo @Pangu @ChineseTiger1986 @powastick @onebyone @kankan326 @badguy2000 @TianyaTaiwan @ahtan_china @ChineseTiger1986 @powastick @empirefighter @hexagonsnow @xuxu1457 @sword1947 @tranquilium@55100864 @Sommer @HongWu002 @Speeder 2 @Dungeness @utp45 @StarCraft_ZT2 @Martian2 @Jguo @Arryn @rott @TheTruth @Dungeness @immortalsoul @beijingwalker @xunzi @Obambam @ahtan_china @bolo @bobsm @Abacin @Tom99 @Genesis @GS Zhou @djsjs @Daniel808 @Nan Yang @70U63 ]@CAPRICORN-88 @XiaoYaoZi @Hu Songshan @theniubt @LTE-TDD @faithfulguy @Tiqiu @Mista @Brainsucker @Sinopakfriend @21stCentury @Han Patriot @TaiShang @Chinese-Dragon @cnleio et al
America's demographic disasters:
what can we learn and prevent in China?
China is a civilisation state, unlike the newly fabricated immigration states like Australia, Canada, USA, etc.
We are still reading those poems and essays written by our ancestors several thousand years ago from our elementary Chinese textbook to college Chinese textbook.
When our babies start to talk, they will learn Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai's poem 静夜思, and learn to speak those fancy 4-character idioms which dated back to the beginning of our written history. We are proud of our language continuity, cultural cohesion, and civilisational identity. We have ups and downs in history, but our pursuit of a united and centralised civilisation state was always Chinese emperors' priority, continued by modern China's leadership from KMT in 1911 to CPC in 1949.
---------------------------
China in motion
China' developed East
China's potential, less developed interior
Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, poorest province in China
-------------------------------
Concerning the population and economy size of Australia and Canada (less than Guangdong+Jiangsu Provinces both in GDP and population), what we can learn from the demographic tendency in USA is more constructive for China to enact our own population policies. To ensure a sustainable growth in economy and to create high-quality high-skill/education younger generations, it is advisable to focus on stimulating growth among China's increasing middle class and providing better education (especially vocational education) opportunities to the less wealthier families.
Given what we have learned from immigration countries like US and some traditional social democratic welfare states like Sweden, I suggest that sufficient benefits should be provided, however, the purpose is not to copy the disastrous rat/rabbit-breeding style of population growth as is witnessed among some low-skill/education minorities in US (will become the majority within decades), but to create an equitable pathway for all Chinese citizens to --- wealthy or poor, all intellectual and education-oriented in Chinese nature ----- to raise high-quality and high-skill/education "children" without compromising what we are doing now ---- provide the best surroundings for our "single child". The core of our culture shall never be affected by a hype, a hype in which demographic dividend will continue without noticing the new round of revolution in technology. This round, will be perhaps more revolutional than any one before, radical, brutal and even bloody.
During the era of the ongoing technological revolution, there is a huge decrease of low-skill jobs in the world (already happening). From my observation, there is no such term as demographic dividend during this revolution, only demographic disaster in which excessive low-skill labour makes for social unrests. Such tendency has already begun, we have already started to witness it around the world, not just in poorer developing countries, but also in manufacturing powerhouse like East Asia-ASEAN and Western Europe.
What we need is, high-skill labour with education level either from college or from high-quality vocational schools, especially the latter one which is the core of China's climbing up in the supply chain. The future of China's manufacturing and innovation is not on the low-skill assembling lines which will be eventually replaced by automation by large. The future lies in, DJI, Huawei, BYD, CRRC, Haier, Lenovo, and all other successful or will-be successful Chinese branded products underpinned by innovation and high valued-added industries.
Chinese contestants won the most important gold in WorldSkills 2015
Manufacturing Team Challenge
Skills to rule: East Asia
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To sum up, my advise is:
1, Focus on education. If education and skill trainings can not be achieved, then no second child at all. Rat/rabbit-breading style population growth is much worse than continuing one-child policy.
2, Integrate our population policies with our industrial and technological policies.
3, Avoid immigration from low-skill/education background. The current strict citizenship and residency policies should not be loosed, except for on overseas Chinese and to a lesser extent confucian societies in the same region.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Background
The Changing Demographic Profile of the United States
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/population/cb12-243.html
Quote
All in all, minorities, now 37 percent of the U.S. population, are projected to comprise 57 percent of the population in 2060. (Minorities consist of all but the single-race, non-Hispanic white population.) The total minority population would more than double, from 116.2 million to 241.3 million over the period.
@Yizhi @Shotgunner51 @TaiShang @Stranagor @cirr @Keel @Jlaw @Place Of Space @FairAndUnbiased @zeronet @Raphael @sweetgrape @Edison Chen @Chinese Bamboo @Chinese-Dragon @cnleio @+4vsgorillas-Apebane @onebyone @yusheng @Kyle Sun @dy1022 @Beast @YoucanYouup @terranMarine @ahojunk @kuge@Economic superpower @Beidou2020 @cirr @JSCh @jkroo @Pangu @ChineseTiger1986 @powastick @onebyone @kankan326 @badguy2000 @TianyaTaiwan @ahtan_china @ChineseTiger1986 @powastick @empirefighter @hexagonsnow @xuxu1457 @sword1947 @tranquilium@55100864 @Sommer @HongWu002 @Speeder 2 @Dungeness @utp45 @StarCraft_ZT2 @Martian2 @Jguo @Arryn @rott @TheTruth @Dungeness @immortalsoul @beijingwalker @xunzi @Obambam @ahtan_china @bolo @bobsm @Abacin @Tom99 @Genesis @GS Zhou @djsjs @Daniel808 @Nan Yang @70U63 ]@CAPRICORN-88 @XiaoYaoZi @Hu Songshan @theniubt @LTE-TDD @faithfulguy @Tiqiu @Mista @Brainsucker @Sinopakfriend @21stCentury @Han Patriot @TaiShang @Chinese-Dragon @cnleio et al
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