One of the characteristics of China's population is that the base is large, although this matter once became a difficult problem for China to complete the task of poverty alleviation, but everything has two sides, the huge population makes China in infrastructure, transportation, handicrafts and other labor-intensive industries have made great achievements, become a famous "world factory", but also promote China's economic development.
However, just recently, some experts conducted a comprehensive analysis and inference on the past, modernity, and future of China's population development, and they found that if the three "mountains" that increase the cost of Chinese people are removed as soon as possible, then in another 22 years, China's total population will be surpassed by the United States, whose current population is only a quarter of China's.
What problems do these "three mountains" point to, and do we have any good solutions to solve them?
In this era of people's crazy "involution", one of the most obvious characteristics is that enterprises have higher and higher requirements for employees' academic qualifications.
If 60 years ago, the threshold for people to become teachers was junior high school students and high school students, then now without the threshold of a university undergraduate, it is impossible to be allowed to step on the three-foot podium.
The consequence of the involution of academic qualifications is the increase in the cost of education.
In the case of universal compulsory education, the cost of a child's education from public kindergarten to junior high school is basically only in the teaching aids, school uniforms and lunches, in order to take care of students from poor families, many schools have many meal standards, and the lowest level often only charges five yuan.
However, in today's social environment, children who have graduated from junior high school not only do not meet the threshold for finding a job, but also do not reach the age to fully participate in the workforce, so many people can only continue their studies.
In high school or secondary vocational school, the tuition fee is often only a few hundred yuan, plus some other expenses, the burden on ordinary families is not very heavy, but when it comes to college, the situation is not the same - in the face of tuition fees ranging from a few thousand to tens of thousands, many student families feel great pressure.
In particular, the average annual cost of private colleges and universities is 20,000 yuan, which is often the annual income of many poor families.
That is to say, after many poor families empty their families for their children to finish college, they often find that their children can only work for 35000 a month, and if they want to earn more money, the threshold is to "continue to study" first.
The cost of time and economy has become a burden for many families, and in order to avoid the tragedy of their offspring continuing this constant "involution", many young people have begun to choose Dink.
In fact, even for families with good family conditions, the cost of raising their children will only be greater, because students from those families have almost started to make up extracurricular and study art such as piano and dance almost since they were young in order to pursue better grades.
In short, after discovering that raising a "gold-swallowing beast" has to bear the high cost of more than ten years of hard study, the willingness of the new generation of young people to have children has greatly decreased.
There is no other disease", this is a "consensus" of many Chinese, and the uncertainty of having a disease can range from hundreds to tens of thousands, and there is no upper limit, which makes the Chinese people full of fear about "sickness".
Whether it is an adult or a child, the usual fever and cold are fine, once you encounter some incurable diseases or rare diseases, the hospital seems to have become a gold hole, a bottomless pit, many people die of illness is not really unable to be saved, but because it is really "incurable, unaffordable".
Many children of the elderly can only watch their parents die because they cannot afford the endless expenses; Many elderly people do not want to increase the burden on their children, so they will give up the opportunity.
Under the shroud of illness, many originally happy families were shattered, and the three-year epidemic took the lives of many elderly people with underlying diseases, which made the growth of the Chinese population show a downward trend.
In addition to the elderly, many children, teenagers, and middle-aged people are also unable to escape the harvest of disease, coupled with the continuous increase in the cost of education, there is another reason why young people are reluctant to have offspring.
The reason why medical treatment will empty a family's savings for many years is because there is a disease that "cannot be left untreated", then. In addition to medical care, another thing that everyone "must have" in our traditional concept has become another shackle that restricts people's "reproductive freedom", that is, the house.
In the cultural context of attaching importance to blood inheritance and kinship, the pursuit of "family" by our people has almost been engraved into their bones.
It is worth mentioning that in our traditional conception, "home" is not a union of a man and a woman, but starts with having a house that "belongs to you".
In the case that people's general wages are only about 1,000 yuan, and the cost of buying a house is often tens of millions, in the absence of family support, it often means that even if an ordinary person does not eat or drink, he must save at least ten or twenty years of savings in order to find a place to live in the city.
It costs hundreds of thousands to raise a child, at least hundreds of thousands in case of a serious illness, and at least hundreds of thousands to buy a house.
Of course, the state is also aware of this problem and has introduced various policies to seek improvements.
So, is it possible that these three "mountains" pressing on the issue of Chinese people's fertility will be removed?
In fact, these three "mountains", to put it bluntly, are all economic problems, if the state funds are sufficient and subsidies are in place, then people's willingness to have children will also be improved.
The problem lies in the fact that if China wants to further promote economic development, it really needs to take a long-term view.
Looking at the developed countries in the world, the United States, Britain, France and other countries rely on more than 100 years of aggression and expansion; Accumulating capital, Japan, South Korea and other countries rely on "hugging the thigh of the United States" and selling their positions and dignity in exchange for economic support from European and American countries; Singapore, the Czech Republic and other countries rely on superior geographical locations, such as Singapore's prosperous ports and the Czech Republic's natural advantages in the center of Central Europe, ......
In contrast, our country can really only "seek inward", and this road of seeking is destined to be lonely and difficult.
In order to explore China's economic potential, we vigorously expand the international market through the "Belt and Road" platform, and find a broader market for China's product exports through the dual circulation of international and domestic markets.
In addition, China also actively hosts international sports events such as the Olympic Games and the Winter Games, the purpose of which is not only to demonstrate China's comprehensive national strength, but also to attract the attention of the international community and seek more possibilities for the country's development.
So, back to the "three mountains" problem itself, on the issue of education, many universities in China have achieved full coverage of grants and student loans, and every year there are fixed places for students who are really in difficulty and in need of help, and the interest rate of student loans is very low, and it will not cause great pressure to students who have just entered the society.
On the issue of medical care, the state has also been looking for ways to reduce people's medical costs through medical anti-corruption, price control, etc.
However, these problems involve a wide range of issues, and they cannot be solved by thinking of a solution in the first place.
For example, the problem of buying a house, there are too many links in a community from planning to land acquisition to residential and then to final completion, and the more links, the more opportunities for "price increase", and these costs are difficult to centralize and control.
Not long ago, some experts have combined fertility problems with buying a house, and put forward the concept of "a five-percent discount for families with three children", but if this concept wants to land or improve, it still needs to be discussed, otherwise it will not be good if there will be a phenomenon of "disorderly birth".
All in all, the development of the country is a complex and long process, but we have reason to believe that under the leadership of the party and the state, our life will definitely get better and better.