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It is an undeniable fact that in recent decades, Chinese society has made remarkable progress in the economy, politics, science and technology, and other aspects, and the people's living standards have also improved to a certain extent.
However, there are also a series of social problems, the most prominent of which are the deepening of the aging population and the low fertility rate.
This will play a vital role in the stable development of society, so it has also become the focus of public attention. The government has begun to take a series of measures to alleviate the situation, but it is still a drop in the bucket.
At the same time, there are also some experts who have jumped out to offer advice. Among them, Professor Zheng Bingwen, director of the World Social Security Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, also surprised many netizens and quickly sparked heated discussions on the Internet.
It is difficult to raise a baby to help relatives
It is worth noting that in Professor Zheng's remarks, he first affirmed that the current life pressure faced by young people is very high, which comes from various aspects.
It is no exaggeration to say that many young people nowadays are unemployed after graduation, and some even need to rely on their parents' financial support to barely survive, and it is very difficult to support themselves, let alone get married and have children.
Nowadays, in people's ideological concepts, they do not attach so much importance to the concept of having children and passing on the ancestry, and there are even many Dinks. As a result, young people's fertility intentions are low.
Professor Cheng also expressed great regret and understood the plight of young people, but his next suggestion was unexpected.
However, the proposed measures proposed by Professor Cheng are not to solve the problem fundamentally and start with policy reform, but to exhort all young people to take advantage of the effective childbearing period to have a childbearing period as soon as possible, and not to wait too late to regret it.
And the solution provided is to find relatives to help when it is difficult to give birth to a baby, so that they can help. Obviously, in today's skyrocketing prices, ordinary people have no extra money to lend to others, even if they are relatives.
Moreover, many only children do not have much personal contact with their relatives, and more rely on their parents' generation to maintain their relatives, and sometimes distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors.
It would be fine if Professor Zheng was just an ordinary professor, at most he was regarded by netizens as "a professor who is detached from the masses and does not know the actual hardships of the grassroots", but he is also a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and his proposal may also play a role in the development of social welfare in the future.
Experts are not grounded in thinking
In Prof. Cheng's view, kinship is a very important social resource, but it is gradually being diluted in modern society, so he believes that the role of relatives in the process of raising children should be re-examined.
Some netizens believe that raising children mainly depends on the strength of parents, if you don't have a certain ability to raise children, it will be a big burden, even if relatives can help once or twice, how can they always be willing to lend you money to raise a baby.
The premise of more relatives lending you is first of all the affection, and the other is your ability to repay in the future. Professor Zheng himself is capable, and his relatives are basically wealthy people, and his own experience is not representative of the living standards of ordinary people.
Such ungrounded remarks have also sparked criticism from many netizens. More young people have low fertility intentions and are unwilling to let their children suffer.
Raising one child may be passable, raising two requires more hard work, and having three children is burdensome. The right to have children is also the right of citizens, and the decision to have children or not is still in their own hands.
We also need to think carefully about this issue, which is also a sign of responsibility for ourselves and our families. Clearly, the recommendations of experts to encourage fertility do not take much into account the realities of the situation.
epilogue
If there is difficulty, go to find relatives, then whoever sees relatives after that will probably have to slip away in advance. What's more, the borrowed money needs to be repaid after all, and it also needs to be burdened with a personal debt, which is obviously not willing to be done by many people.
Instead of blindly trying to let young people have more children at the right age, to increase the fertility rate and alleviate the problem of rapid population aging. It is better to do more practical things for the people first to create a good childbirth environment.
Ordinary people do not dare to have children, in the final analysis, they have no money in their pockets, and this will also make the mainland's consumer market sluggish.
Therefore, the government can start from the aspect of raising the level of national income, encourage employment and entrepreneurship, improve the social welfare security system, and introduce a series of preferential policies and benefits on childbirth, so as to increase the people's willingness to have children.
Only in this way can young people no longer feel so much pressure in life. After all, many young people still take a large loan to buy a car and a house, and their salary income is not much left after repaying the loan.
The cost of raising a child from birth to adulthood can cost hundreds of thousands, or even millions, and it also requires a huge amount of time and effort, which can be prohibitive for young couples.
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