The generation of women born in the era of the Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy are having few, if any, children.
As an office worker in Beijing and a part-time model, Yi scrimps away her savings for one main purpose – to travel the world and experience new places, a lifestyle that cannot easily accommodate a child.
Yi is part of a generation of women born in the era of the Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy who themselves are having few, if any, children. Although it was officially abandoned almost a decade ago in 2016 and replaced with the two-child policy and then the, its impact continues to have far-reaching consequences for the Chinese economy.
Chinese authorities have since spent billions on measures aimed at boosting the fertility rate, such as improving maternity leave and childcare access, as well as tax deductions and housing subsidies for families. President Xi Jinping last year called on women to “create a new trend of family”, one based in a “new culture of marriage and childbearing”.
Dr Xiujian Peng, at Victoria University, says another consequence of the one-child policy has been to raise the educational attainment of girls, who did not have to compete with brothers for access to schooling, which changed women’s expectation around career goals. When combined with the present day’s highly competitive labour market, and inflexible workplaces for mothers, this has also dampened the fertility rate, as women delay getting married and having children to later in life.
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