Chinese experts are warning the country is on the verge of an “unstoppable” population decline.
Decades of family planning policies have left China with a shrinking workforce and aging population.
Despite easing those restrictions, the number of births continue to plummet.
CGTN’S Wu Guoxiu reports.
To discuss:
- Yan Liang is an Associate Professor at Willamette University
- Therese Hesketh is the director at the Center for Global Health at Zhejiang University School of Medicine
- Richard Jackson is the president of the Global Aging Institute
- Yong Cai is an assistant professor with the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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