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An education policy enacted six years ago means that only half of junior high students in China can go on to get academic degrees in the country, and many parents don’t like those odds.
To boost the birth rate, the Chinese president and the Communist Party are looking to women. The reasons for the plummeting birth rate are attributable to the one-child policy, the economic crisis China is going through, and a cultural change among the younger generations.
The Social Weather Stations recently released its latest findings. Except for the capital, more households rate themselves as poor, especially in the south of the country, with an increase of almost two million households in five years. The Always Poor number 9.7 million.