Chinese Population
Usually, people do not care about other countries; however, this action is inappropriate accurate, because nobody can say we will never get the same situation. Moreover, nobody wants to get accidents; however, in the world, there are a lot of problems. People must think ahead of every accident, which means those accidents have possibility. Fortunately, people have a lot of experience with accidents, so people can anticipate many events. Especially, China has long history and many accidents. Moreover, this country has new population problems too. China tries to fix its population problems. Of course, the government or Chinese people attempt to fix their population problems them selves; however, people have to learn the solution of population problems, because I think people have to learn the solution efficiently. “Despite the substantial decrease of China’s population growth since 1982, the possibility that the growth rate may stop declining still remains”(Nicolas and Platzer, 2004, para.2). “Current problems due to overpopulation are evident, and future problems are imminent”. China has a very huge population, which makes for many problems, especially, the only-child policy, agriculture, aging society, and pollution are heavy problems.
Those factors make huge population problems, so people have to ascertain the problems and have to find the best solution. Moreover, people have to not forget those problems, because any experience will become people’s power. China is the country with the biggest population, which is almost 1.3 billion people (Population & Nationalities, 2006). This number is around one fifth of the people on earth. “As a unitary multi-national state, China has a total of 56 nationalities” (Population & Nationalities, 2006, para.2).
First, in China, the government tries to lower the population, because too much population makes many problems. the most popular strategy is the only-child policy, which is as follows: “The most basic description of the one-child policy is that it is a population control policy put in effect in China in 1979 that seeks to limit the number of children each couple has to one child” (What is the One-Child Policy?, n.d, para. 2). This policy is very reasonable, because if population declines, problems will pass. However, the only-child policy caused a problem, which is imbalanced sex. And the other problem too, which is that “social scientists are talking about a future in which 15 percent of men won't have wives” (Marquand, 2004, para. 5). Moreover, sudden population decline will make another problem, which is that this country will come to have negative growth. This policy is very good in its efficiency; however, this policy makes many problems too, because of this transformation into the new population number, therefore general people are tortvred by this big change.
Second, in China, there has been a lower birth lately than before, surely; however, population is increasing. Therefore, China will become a bigger country than now in the near future. As a consequence, people can guess about some problems. Especially, agriculture is a very big problem. For example, “Water pollution from industries and untreated urban sewage systems is a serious problem in some agricultural areas that depend on irrigation” (Does China's agriculture have a water problem?, n.d, para.3). “China has - by far - the highest total emission of organic water pollutants in the world”. Thus, China agriculture is not at a very high level. Moreover, China agricultural people are poor, because “Slow increase in farmers' income is the greatest factor thwarting efforts to explore rural markets. When farmers' purses are not so bulging, increase in actual consumption demand will be slow. To increase farmers' income is, in essence, to enhance the rural economy's adaptability to the socialist market economy” (Agriculture, n.d, para.12). “In the opinions of authoritative persons, it is essential to get hold of two links: one is what to grow. Farmers have to grow farm crops easy to yield added value”. So those factors delay to an agriculture promotion; however, people have to improve their agricultural level, because in the close future, China will have a very huge population. Because of this, population growth will keeps rising. Therefore, high agricultural level is a necessary condition.
Third, China has to prepare for the aging society, because even now, people are aging into the retirement ages, which means China will become negative growth country. “In absolute numbers, the magnitude of China’s coming age wave is staggering” (Parker, 2004, para.1).“By 2040, assuming current demographic trends continue, there will be 397 million Chinese elders, which is more than the total current population of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom combined”. In my country, Japan, we have same problem, which is a negative growth problem. Especially, the pension problem is a very big problem, because old people cannot live. There are a lot of old people, which means young people have to pay for a lot of pensions and old people cannot get much pension. Those generations have problems. First, the old people paid in to their pension; however, they cannot get the pension, because they do not have many children. Moreover, 10 years ago, people who were over 60 years old could get the pension; however over 65 years people can get the pension now. So they need to save money for fiver more years. On the other hand, young people do not want to pay for the pension, because no one do not know how old our generation can get the pension and young people need to pay bigger money to the government. It is so hard, so young people think we should save money our selves. Aging society makes serious problems. Therefore, people have to bring down the population growth late slowly.
Some people may argue that only-child policy does not have weak points; however, it does, because many female babies have been was killed. “They also point out that those who choose to abort their babies - poor peasants and migrant workers - are among the most underprivileged social groups, and the criminalization of such abortions could marginalize them even further” (Bezlova, 2005, para.1). It is not humane. Moreover, sometime there have more inhumanity events. “Daughters, by contrast, are married off to into their husbands' families. They are looked down upon and discriminated against” (Bezlova, 2005, para.9). “Cases of female infanticide and neglect existed long before China began to implement its restrictions on family fertility”. It is an awful event. In China, some parents want to kill them own daughters; however, they do not really want their daughter to die, which means if their own family is wealthy, they want to live with their daughter. However, it is impossible, because they are very poor and the government makes the rule. People have to change this problem now.
In conclusion, China’s problems are very serious problems, because they affect human life and they rob humanity. People have to stop those problems, which are the only-child policy, agricultural problems, and aging society. People must not dissemble, because they must try to live now. People have to save themselves from those problems.
Reference
Agriculture. (n.d.). A web site to the China market. Retrieved August 1, 2007 from http://www.index-china.com/index-english/agr-tech-s.html
Nicolas, A and Platzer, B. (2004, April 24). Negative Consequences of Overpopulation. Population Control in China. Retrieved August 1, 2007 from
http://www.columbia.edu/~bcp26/web-pages/consequences.html
Bezlova, A. (2005, February 8). China to punish abortion of females. ASIA TIMES. Retrieved August 1, 2007 from
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GB08Ad02.html
Does China's agriculture have a water problem?. (n.d.). IIASA. Retrieved August 1, 2007 from
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/SRD/ChinaFood/faq/faq_8.htm
Marquand, R. (2004, September 3). China faces future as land of boys. THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. Retrieved August 1, 2007 from
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0903/p01s03-woap.html
Parker, R. (2004, April 28). FuturePundit. Retrieved August 1, 2007 from
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/002075.html
Population & Nationalities. (2006, October 19). Warrior Tours. Retrieved August 1, 2007 from
http://www.warriortours.com/intro/population.htm
What is the One-Child Policy? (n.d.). Women and China's One-Child Policy. Retrieved August 1, 2007 from
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/womens-studies/ws399/ws399_05/Public/Vanessa%20China%20Website/OneChildPolicy.htm
Usually, people do not care about other countries; however, this action is inappropriate accurate, because nobody can say we will never get the same situation. Moreover, nobody wants to get accidents; however, in the world, there are a lot of problems. People must think ahead of every accident, which means those accidents have possibility. Fortunately, people have a lot of experience with accidents, so people can anticipate many events. Especially, China has long history and many accidents. Moreover, this country has new population problems too. China tries to fix its population problems. Of course, the government or Chinese people attempt to fix their population problems them selves; however, people have to learn the solution of population problems, because I think people have to learn the solution efficiently. “Despite the substantial decrease of China’s population growth since 1982, the possibility that the growth rate may stop declining still remains”(Nicolas and Platzer, 2004, para.2). “Current problems due to overpopulation are evident, and future problems are imminent”. China has a very huge population, which makes for many problems, especially, the only-child policy, agriculture, aging society, and pollution are heavy problems.
Those factors make huge population problems, so people have to ascertain the problems and have to find the best solution. Moreover, people have to not forget those problems, because any experience will become people’s power. China is the country with the biggest population, which is almost 1.3 billion people (Population & Nationalities, 2006). This number is around one fifth of the people on earth. “As a unitary multi-national state, China has a total of 56 nationalities” (Population & Nationalities, 2006, para.2).
First, in China, the government tries to lower the population, because too much population makes many problems. the most popular strategy is the only-child policy, which is as follows: “The most basic description of the one-child policy is that it is a population control policy put in effect in China in 1979 that seeks to limit the number of children each couple has to one child” (What is the One-Child Policy?, n.d, para. 2). This policy is very reasonable, because if population declines, problems will pass. However, the only-child policy caused a problem, which is imbalanced sex. And the other problem too, which is that “social scientists are talking about a future in which 15 percent of men won't have wives” (Marquand, 2004, para. 5). Moreover, sudden population decline will make another problem, which is that this country will come to have negative growth. This policy is very good in its efficiency; however, this policy makes many problems too, because of this transformation into the new population number, therefore general people are tortvred by this big change.
Second, in China, there has been a lower birth lately than before, surely; however, population is increasing. Therefore, China will become a bigger country than now in the near future. As a consequence, people can guess about some problems. Especially, agriculture is a very big problem. For example, “Water pollution from industries and untreated urban sewage systems is a serious problem in some agricultural areas that depend on irrigation” (Does China's agriculture have a water problem?, n.d, para.3). “China has - by far - the highest total emission of organic water pollutants in the world”. Thus, China agriculture is not at a very high level. Moreover, China agricultural people are poor, because “Slow increase in farmers' income is the greatest factor thwarting efforts to explore rural markets. When farmers' purses are not so bulging, increase in actual consumption demand will be slow. To increase farmers' income is, in essence, to enhance the rural economy's adaptability to the socialist market economy” (Agriculture, n.d, para.12). “In the opinions of authoritative persons, it is essential to get hold of two links: one is what to grow. Farmers have to grow farm crops easy to yield added value”. So those factors delay to an agriculture promotion; however, people have to improve their agricultural level, because in the close future, China will have a very huge population. Because of this, population growth will keeps rising. Therefore, high agricultural level is a necessary condition.
Third, China has to prepare for the aging society, because even now, people are aging into the retirement ages, which means China will become negative growth country. “In absolute numbers, the magnitude of China’s coming age wave is staggering” (Parker, 2004, para.1).“By 2040, assuming current demographic trends continue, there will be 397 million Chinese elders, which is more than the total current population of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom combined”. In my country, Japan, we have same problem, which is a negative growth problem. Especially, the pension problem is a very big problem, because old people cannot live. There are a lot of old people, which means young people have to pay for a lot of pensions and old people cannot get much pension. Those generations have problems. First, the old people paid in to their pension; however, they cannot get the pension, because they do not have many children. Moreover, 10 years ago, people who were over 60 years old could get the pension; however over 65 years people can get the pension now. So they need to save money for fiver more years. On the other hand, young people do not want to pay for the pension, because no one do not know how old our generation can get the pension and young people need to pay bigger money to the government. It is so hard, so young people think we should save money our selves. Aging society makes serious problems. Therefore, people have to bring down the population growth late slowly.
Some people may argue that only-child policy does not have weak points; however, it does, because many female babies have been was killed. “They also point out that those who choose to abort their babies - poor peasants and migrant workers - are among the most underprivileged social groups, and the criminalization of such abortions could marginalize them even further” (Bezlova, 2005, para.1). It is not humane. Moreover, sometime there have more inhumanity events. “Daughters, by contrast, are married off to into their husbands' families. They are looked down upon and discriminated against” (Bezlova, 2005, para.9). “Cases of female infanticide and neglect existed long before China began to implement its restrictions on family fertility”. It is an awful event. In China, some parents want to kill them own daughters; however, they do not really want their daughter to die, which means if their own family is wealthy, they want to live with their daughter. However, it is impossible, because they are very poor and the government makes the rule. People have to change this problem now.
In conclusion, China’s problems are very serious problems, because they affect human life and they rob humanity. People have to stop those problems, which are the only-child policy, agricultural problems, and aging society. People must not dissemble, because they must try to live now. People have to save themselves from those problems.
Reference
Agriculture. (n.d.). A web site to the China market. Retrieved August 1, 2007 from http://www.index-china.com/index-english/agr-tech-s.html
Nicolas, A and Platzer, B. (2004, April 24). Negative Consequences of Overpopulation. Population Control in China. Retrieved August 1, 2007 from
http://www.columbia.edu/~bcp26/web-pages/consequences.html
Bezlova, A. (2005, February 8). China to punish abortion of females. ASIA TIMES. Retrieved August 1, 2007 from
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GB08Ad02.html
Does China's agriculture have a water problem?. (n.d.). IIASA. Retrieved August 1, 2007 from
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/SRD/ChinaFood/faq/faq_8.htm
Marquand, R. (2004, September 3). China faces future as land of boys. THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. Retrieved August 1, 2007 from
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0903/p01s03-woap.html
Parker, R. (2004, April 28). FuturePundit. Retrieved August 1, 2007 from
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/002075.html
Population & Nationalities. (2006, October 19). Warrior Tours. Retrieved August 1, 2007 from
http://www.warriortours.com/intro/population.htm
What is the One-Child Policy? (n.d.). Women and China's One-Child Policy. Retrieved August 1, 2007 from
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/womens-studies/ws399/ws399_05/Public/Vanessa%20China%20Website/OneChildPolicy.htm
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