Russia has a vast territory and rich resources, but why it cannot develop, a very important reason is the lack of population, which is the biggest shortcoming of the fighting nation. To make up for this last shortcoming, President Putin recently made a major decision. According to a report by the Reference News Network on October 20, President Putin proposed that a one-time reward of 1 million rubles (about 90,000 yuan) be issued to families with three or more children, and Kegong said that President Putin asked the government to study and report to him on this issue before November 1, and the specific work was taken care of by Prime Minister Mishustin.
This is another major step in Russia's upcoming "fertility stimulation", which has been launched as early as 2007 with the "Mother's Capital" project, which subsidizes "families who have a second and more children". According to the plan, the project will be implemented for 10 years, ending at the end of 2016, but Putin has not only signed two decrees to extend the project, but also proposed to increase the amount of "mother's capital", provide incentives of more than 600,000 rubles for families with two children, and at the same time issue a monthly subsidy of "at least 5500 rubles" to children aged 3-7 from low-income families.
Speaking at the All-Russian Children's Center, Putin said bitterly that if it were not for the two divisions of Russia in 1917 and 1991, "if these events had not taken place", the population of Russia would have "reached almost 500 million" and "we would have been a completely different country". Obviously, Putin has long been deeply aware of the importance of population to Russia, without a huge population, it is impossible to form a huge domestic demand market, it is impossible to achieve the "economic double cycle" like China, can only be highly dependent on foreign markets, so it is difficult to rise as a superpower.
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Subject to population problems, Russia is not only difficult to rise to become a world pole, on the contrary, the fighting nation is also facing the threat of "national annihilation". According to a report in the Global Times in November last year, the chairman of the Russian Federal Council on Population Situation, Rebalichenko, had said with concern that the demographic situation in Russia is "deteriorating sharply", that "the total population is expected to decrease by more than 400,000 people throughout the year" and that "the continued decline in the birth rate is a disaster". Russia's "Viewpoint" newspaper is more pessimistic, reporting that if the current trend is followed, by the end of the 21st century, "russia's population will be reduced by 40 million."
Russian "Izvestia" quoted Kuznetsova, the child rights monitor, as saying that "in the past 5 years, the Russian birth rate has dropped by nearly 24%", and Russian sociologist Kochkina believes that the people's "reluctance to have children" is mainly because of too much economic pressure, "1/3 of Russian families live below the poverty line". It is precisely for this reason that Putin has twice extended the term of "mother capital" and, despite the national power, proposed to reward families with "two children" and "three children", and the bonuses have soared from 600,000 rubles to 1 million rubles, and provided children from low-income families with a subsidy of "at least 5500 rubles" per person per month.
In Putin's words, "in order to heal the 'demographic trauma' suffered by Russia in the past, our current efforts are still not enough", and great efforts are still needed to promote fertility, for which Putin gave the death order in his State of the Union address, saying that "only success, not failure" is allowed. It should be pointed out that although China has a population of 1.4 billion (10 times that of Russia), it is the most populous country in the world, but China also faces a serious "population problem", in fact, China's "population problem" may be much more serious than Russia.
On the one hand, China's birth rate is actually much lower than Russia's. Russian "Izvestia" quoted data from the Federal Bureau of Statistics as saying that Russia's total fertility rate "reached the lowest level in nearly 10 years, 1.58", which has caused high concern to the Russian government. At present, China's fertility rate is only 1.3, and what is even more frightening is that the fertility rate of 1.3 is "not yet a stable fertility rate", some population economists said, "will continue to decline in the future", if you remove the disappearing "two-child accumulation effect", China's actual natural fertility rate is only 1.0-1.1, 0.5 lower than the EUROPEAN Union, and even lower than Japan's 1.4!
On the other hand, China's international situation is far more severe than Russia's. Historically, the Chinese nation has experienced many disasters, and those foreign nationalities have either been assimilated by the Chinese nation or beaten back to their original form, and an important reason is precisely because the Han nationality has always occupied the absolute advantage of population numbers, which is an important reason for the endless flow of Chinese civilization. The fertility rate is too low, which will not only lead to the intensification of the aging of the Chinese population, but also the subversive changes in the ethnic population structure, which will cause huge hidden dangers.
Future wars are extremely cruel, after all, "weapons of mass destruction" are no longer new, and even biological weapons specifically aimed at a certain race and nation have long appeared. Population policy can not only consider the "number of issues", but also consider the international situation, demographic structure and long-term stability issues, if strong measures are not taken to reverse the situation of "population cliff", once "special events" occur, Chinese civilization or will face the danger of "irreplaceability"!