Graying Shanghai Encourages Couples To Have 2 Kids
From AP:
Family planning officials in Shanghai are making home visits and slipping leaflets under doorways to encourage certain residents to have a second child in a bid to balance the city’s expanding senior population.
A statement about the new campaign posted Thursday on the Web site of the Shanghai Population and Family Planning Commission was quick to emphasize that it didn’t signal any change in China’s one-child rule and was only an attempt to let people know about the policy’s many exceptions.
About 3 million, or 21 percent, of Shanghai’s nearly 13.7 million registered residents are now aged 60 or older, the statement said.
Xie Lingli, the commission’s director, was quoted as saying authorities will go door to door to try to encourage couples to have a second child if both grew up as only children.
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POSTED COMMENTS: 2 Responses
The phrase “certain residents” means what exactly? Allowing a select few Shanghai families the right to have two children is bound to infuriate those who are still only allowed to have just one. And what about Beijing and other cities?
There are already many exceptions to the policy. Some provinces and cities are allowing couple who were only-children themselves to have two kids (but not everyone). I guess that’s what it’s refering to. Shanghai has had negative pop growth for years if pop growth is defined as people with shanghai hukou. Of course there is no problem with pop growth if migrant workers are allowed hukou