In recent years, the continuous decline in the number of newborns in China has indeed attracted widespread attention. According to official statistics, from 2017 to 2022, the number of newborns has been decreasing year by year, and if this trend is not changed, it may lead to negative population growth in the future, which will have a profound impact on economic and social development.
Faced with this challenge, experts have put forward various suggestions to deal with the problem of "fertility difficulties". For example, Zheng Bingwen, director of the World Social Security Research Center at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, suggested that families can seek financial help from relatives or friends when they are having trouble raising their children. However, this recommendation is not widely accepted because it does not address the underlying issues faced by young people, such as the high cost of childbearing and parenting pressure.
In contrast, the advice put forward by Zhai Dongsheng, a professor at the Chinese University of China, seems to be more supportive of younger and older parents. He suggested that the state should provide maternity subsidies, such as a simple one-bedroom apartment for each newborn. The feasibility of this proposal is based on three main reasons:
The house itself is not valuable: Professor Zhai believes that high housing prices are mainly due to the high cost of land. If the state provides the house directly, the high cost of land can be avoided, and the value of the house is only the cost of construction. As long as these houses are restricted from being traded, there will be no impact on the property market.
A house can effectively promote fertility: providing a house can solve the problem of high costs in the process of educating children. If parents no longer have to worry about their children's school district housing, more families may be willing to have children.
Giving a house can solve the "worries" of young people having a baby: for young people, the child's marriage room is a big worry. If the child is guaranteed a house from birth, parents will have less to worry about, which is conducive to increasing the fertility rate.
Whether this recommendation can be implemented requires further discussion and study. However, it undoubtedly provides a new way of thinking to solve the current fertility problem.
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