China, which currently boasts of world’s largest population at 1.38 billion, is slowly but surely realizing that a fast shrinking young population in the productive age group coupled with a rapidly greying demographical profile, could seriously erode its capability to sustain the engine of its strong economic growth in the years ahead.
Not surprisingly then in recent years there has been a growing realization in China that a declining human population could certainly lead to the derailment of the long nourished Chinese ambition of emerging as the numero uno economic and military power.
As it is, China’s political leadership was not long ago urged by the population experts to introduce a new two child policy designed to solve the demographic problems threatening to slow down the growth rate of this Asian communist giant.
The current demographic situation in China has been blamed on the one child....
