Tag Archives: population

2025: The Party Rescues China’s Bachelors: The Bride Price Crackdown

Posted on 10/07/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Bride prices in China have climbed rapidly over the past three decades. The sharp rise of incomes in better-off social layers (shehui jieceng 社会阶层 — they don’t like to say classes China which were abolished in the PRC under Chinese … Continue reading →

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2025: He Yafu on Taiwan’s Declining Birth Rate

Posted on 02/12/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Lowering China’s birth rate in a coercive program called in Chinese Fertility Planning jihua shengyu. This program was termed ‘family planning’ although it was in fact state planning analogous to the economic planning that characterized the Chinese economy until more … 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: Why No Large Vietnamese Migration to China?

Posted on 02/05/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chinese outmigration has been much discussed recently. Over past decades the size of ethnic Chinese communities overseas has grown with waves of new immigrants and expatriates. See for example the article 2023: PRC Outmigration 1960 – 2020 from the The  China … Continue reading →

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2023: PRC Outmigration 1960 – 2020

Posted on 12/18/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Increasing numbers of Chinese migrant crossing the US southern border and claiming political asylum has grabbed the attention of the US media lately. The  China Overseas Chinese Association (COCA)  中国侨联 website has considerable information about the history of Chinese migrations … 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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2023 Li Daokui: PRC Population Peaked But Human Resources to Grow to 2040

Posted on 02/14/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

China still has many poor and disadvantaged people in the countryside and rural areas. Economic forces could combine with human rights consciousness to ultimately completely eliminate the rural-urban barriers in its household registration system. Although these barriers have been eroded … Continue reading →

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2022: Focus Development on People, Not the West

Posted on 11/07/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Hu Xuefeng, Director of Wuhan University Chinese Rural Governance Research Center, suggests shifting the policy focus of “Develop the West” to a policy of “Develop the People”. He outlines the shortcomings and waste of the Develop the West policy and … Continue reading →

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2021 Zhou Tianyong: Understanding Mixed Economy Distortions in the Chinese Economy

Posted on 10/30/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Another translation of an article by economist Zhou Tianyong is the Vice President of the Institute of International Strategic Studies, Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Beijing. You may want to look at … Continue reading →

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2022: PRC Demographer Yuan Xin: Low Fertility Challenge Calls for Policy Response

Posted on 08/06/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

See also related translations: 2022: PRC Fertility: Cash Short and Child Poor? 2021: PRC Analysts: Population Aging, Declining Fertility Make PRC Family/Fertility Policy Change Imperative 2021: Private Out, State Further “In” as Chinese Education Focuses on the Family 2021: Liang Jianzhang: Too Many … Continue reading →

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