Tag Archives: demography

2026: A Barrier to Talent — Restrictions on Inter-city Transfers of Urban Household Registry

Posted on 04/01/2026 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Two days before we left US Embassy Beijing in 2001, a friend from Wenzhou invited me to a dinner with leaders of the Wenzhou community in Beijing. It was especially interesting since Wenzhou has been one of China’s prime centers … Continue reading →

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2024: PRC Fertility Policy — You Must Have Children

Posted on 02/27/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This article on policy suggestions by PRC population policy experts that has been called the “New Type of Family Planning” 新型计划生育 [in Chinese this is New Type Fertility Planning; one must admit family planning makes it sound better, though who … Continue reading →

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2023 Jojje Olsson: China’s Demographic Crash Landing

Posted on 06/14/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Below (feel free to skip my intervening rant) is translated an illuminating article by Taiwan-based Swedish journalist Jojje Olsson on China’s population decline concerns. China’s demographic worries over the years changed from population growth is good, to bad, to good … Continue reading →

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2022: PRC Fertility: Cash Short and Child Poor?

Posted on 01/14/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

See also related translations here: PRC Analysts: Population Aging, Declining Fertility Make PRC Family/Fertility Policy Change Imperative Private Out, State Further “In” as Chinese Education Focuses on the Family 2005: PRC Birth Enforcement Planning Regulations Dial Back Overly Aggressive Enforcement Liang Jianzhang: Too … Continue reading →

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2021: PRC Analysts: Population Aging, Declining Fertility Make PRC Family/Fertility Policy Change Imperative

Posted on 12/14/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Recently, a rapidly censored social media post criticizing a supposed Chinese Communist Party plan to require all Party members to have more than two children. The anonymous poster has a geat pen name — 未名湖的闲着 The Idler of the Unnamed Lake (perhaps … Continue reading →

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Late 1990s Reading Notes: PRC Scholars on Xinjiang

Posted on 12/08/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

While working in the US Embassy Beijing Environment, Science and Technology Section in the late 1990s, I collected some books on Xinjiang. I went on a ten-day trip there in 1997 planning to do a report on desertification and implementation … Continue reading →

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1990s: PRC Scholars on Xinjiang — Analysis and Policy Recommendations

Posted on 08/09/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here are some reading notes I made while working in the U.S. Embassy Beijing Environment, Science and Technology Section (1996 – 2001). These I have copied from the old U.S. Embassy Beijing website preserved on the Internet Archive. Here I … Continue reading →

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2005: PRC Birth Enforcement Planning Regulations Dial Back Overly Aggressive Enforcement

Posted on 08/08/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The word 计划生育 jihua shengyu “planned fertility” is usually translated as ‘family planning’ in English.  The Chinese practice makes personal reproduction as another element to control in the planned economy so calling it birth planning could be more appropriate.   … Continue reading →

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