China News Service, April 17th. Taiwan's "China Daily" published an editorial on the 17th "Breakthrough the dilemma of low births and life-saving should first fight for the economy", saying that the intensification of the problem of low births in Taiwan is actually related to the long-term sluggish economy and the stagnation of wages every year. Many young people do not want to get married at all, and they cannot afford to give birth or raise them. Only by first revitalizing the economy, eliminating social inequalities such as the rich and the poor, so that young people have ideal jobs and reasonable salaries, and have hope for the future, can they increase their interest in "increasing production".
Data photo: Taiwanese elderly people climbed high and looked far away during the Double Ninth Festival. China News Service reporter Ren Haixia. Excerpted by the article is as follows:
Taiwan authorities recently announced the establishment of a "office of less births" to "give birth" for the Taiwanese people, trying to increase Taiwan's fertility rate from 1.1 to 1.6 people, but all walks of life are not optimistic about whether this goal can be achieved. Regarding the issue of less birth, the Taiwan authorities should raise the level of handling, and at the same time, in response to the phenomenon of "no marriage, no childbirth, no raising" of the people, find out the cause and prescribe the right medicine, so that Taiwan can have more vitality.
"The cry of a baby is the hope of mankind." Only when newborns come to the world continuously can the population metabolize normally and maintain social stability and development.
Taiwan’s female fertility rate has declined since 1984, lower than the population substitution level of 2.1 people. In recent years, it has been hovering at the low level of 1.1 people. 2010 coincides with the Year of the Tiger, and the fertility rate has fallen to 0.89 people. Although the Taiwan authorities have revised the population policy program and introduced a number of reward fertility measures, they still cannot increase the fertility rate of women, making Taiwan increasingly in a dilemma of less birth.
As women gradually enter the workplace and the advancement of fertility control technology, the decline in fertility rates has become a common trend in various advanced regions. Taking Japan as an example, in the " baby boom " after World War II, each woman gave birth to an average of 5 children, which fell to less than 2 people in 1975, and began to enter a "small and elderly society" in 1997 (the population under 15 years old is lower than that of over 65 years old). The new term "small and elderly" has emerged since then.
In order to respond to the unprecedentedly serious problem of low birth rate, the Japanese government has formulated relevant laws and set up countermeasures for low birth rate in the cabinet to promote relevant policies. Although many efforts have been made, Japan's total population continues to grow negatively. It is estimated that by 2050, the population will fall below the 100 million people level. Japan's population trend is like a mirror for Taiwan, reflecting cruel facts.
Taiwanese tend to "go late marriage and late birth, not married and infertile", and in the future, "fourths of them have no children and fifty percent have no grandchildren", and the situation of one person and a single family will increase. If the Taiwan authorities do not take positive actions, the young and middle-aged population will decline significantly. Now the average 6.2 young and middle-aged population will bear one elderly person, and in the future, 1.2 young and middle-aged population will bear one elderly person. At that time, the labor force is short, the tax paying population will decrease, and schools will close because they cannot find students. The entire society will suffer a lot.
Taiwan authorities set up a low birth office to find well-known female artists who have given birth to two or more children to endorse the speech. To be honest, whether these actions can slow down the fertility rate will not be optimistic. The main reason is that Taiwan only has sporadic policies to deal with the reduction of births and lacks cross-departmental integration. It should be revised and strengthened in the future.
The intensification of the problem of low birth rate in Taiwan is actually related to the long-term sluggish economy and the stagnation of wages every year. Many young people's income is lower than the level of more than ten or twenty years ago, and they do not want to get married at all, and they cannot afford to give birth or support. Raising childbirth subsidies and childcare allowances, or giving maternity leave, childbirth leave, , is not enough to motivate young people. Only by first revitalizing the economy, eliminating social inequalities such as the rich and the poor, so that young people have ideal jobs and reasonable salaries, and have hope for the future, can they increase their interest in "increasing production".
