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E-Tone™: Ulpan-Or Weekly News Digest #11-10-15

Item #2 (Advanced Level)

Baby Boom in China?

When the leaders of China decided in the seventies to embrace the one
child policy, they simply did the wrong math. (Those) who broke the law
were badly punished: fines, getting laid off work. Though they prevented
four hundred million births, [but] (they) caused hundreds of millions of
Chinese families to look like this: five generations around one table, and at
the end - the only daughter of the great granddaughter. Millions of men in
China don’t have who to marry today. About thirty percent of China’s
population are over the age of fifty - a great concern for the world’s second
largest economy. Two years ago an experiment was held: (those) who are
a single child themselves - are allowed to have two children. But the math
was wrong here as well. Ninety percent of the young couples said, “A
second child? No thanks, (we) barely have money for one.” The second
child decision won’t change demographics in the near future. So who will
take care of all the elderly? Who will speed up economic growth? Where
will millions of bachelors find (their) brides? And multiply all this data by
hundreds of millions.

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