Author: Fang Zhigang.
Let's first read a passage in "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period: Cha Jin": "A man of the Tao is valuable to know the near and far, to know the past with the present, and to know what he does not see with what he sees." Therefore, the yin under the court, and the journey of the sun and the moon, the change of yin and yang; See the ice of the bottle of water, and know the cold of the world, and the hiding of fish and turtles; Taste a piece of meat, and know the taste of a wok, a tripod tone. ”
A few years ago, Lao Wen said that he searched for relatives and friends to persuade his son and daughter-in-law to have a second child, but his son and daughter-in-law refused.
Lao Wen has been retired for three years, with a pension of more than 6,000 yuan per month, his daughter-in-law has a national career editor with a monthly salary of more than 5,000 yuan, and his son is a middle-level manager of a private company, with a monthly salary of about 20,000 yuan, a family of five, with a monthly income of more than 30,000 yuan, and his wife has no work income and is at home with his grandson. Such a family should not belong to a family that cannot afford to raise two dolls.
2022 is an inflection point in the development of the Chinese population, the fertility level does not reach the population replacement level, in terms of the village group where I originally lived, there are more than a dozen old people who have passed away, but there is no newborn baby, this village has no family happy events, marrying new people, and adding people for three consecutive years, which is worrying to think about.
2023 is minus 0 per 1,000 percent of the natural population growth rate in 2022After 6, the second minus 1 thousandth5. It is an incredible thing that the place of the world's most populous country was replaced by India.
In the Russian-Ukrainian war, Russia attaches great importance not only to land, but also to population. Without population resources, everything else will become a luxury for others. Russia's population declined, the population resources of the United States were not much better, the Indians were **, the Anglo-Saxons occupied North America, and the whites did not multiply there in large numbers, and later the Israelis, Mexicans, Africans, and Asians, although they poured in a lot, did not make the United States a population superpower, it not only picked up the wool of other countries economically, but also the wool of other countries in terms of population, to make up for the population loss in the domestic aspect.
The population problem is really a big problem, if a family does not have a population, no matter how much wealth it has, it will eventually decline. The great man once said, "As long as there are people, any miracle on earth can be created." "Look at the tragic scenes of those who have lost their independence in their old age, who is to blame?
In ancient China, there were good visions of "many sons and many blessings", "four generations in the same house" and "five generations of prosperity". The family is the cell of a country, and only when thousands of families prosper can a country become prosperous and strong.
The tremendous progress of reform and opening up has benefited from the huge demographic dividend generated since the founding of the People's Republic of China. The term "demographic dividend" is too well said. When the People's Republic of China was founded, the country had a population of 400 million, just as Mr. Chiang, who retreated to Taiwan, said, "I threw the burden of eating for 40,000 people to *** and the Communist Party." Later, there was the great man's bold statement that "the Chinese people do not need to beg from imperialism to live."
By the time of reform and opening up, the Chinese population had reached as much as 1.1 billion, a net increase of about 700 million compared with the founding of the People's Republic of China, which is twice the population of the contemporary United States. At that time, a normal family had 4 to 8 children. At that time, there was no need for any stimulus at all, as long as the restrictions were slightly loosened, the huge wealth creation and consumption power would be revealed. Now, as long as there is a modest increase in population size, the economy will be brilliant again.