[Bay Area Customs]China and Hong Kong are facing the population crisis together-Cheng Kai｜ Apple Daily

Hong Kong’s negative population growth in 2020, the government’s justified explanation is due to the epidemic’s closure, but everyone knows that all the relatives, friends, and colleagues around you can walk away. Even young people who have no money and no property will let go and prefer to stay away. Wandering as a second-class citizen, he does not want to stay as a first-class mournful citizen of Hong Kong.

Interestingly, Chinese officials have been discussing the population crisis at a large length in recent days. It is estimated that China’s birth population will drop by 2 million in 2020, which is the lowest number of births since the founding of the Communist Party of China. After 2022, China will face the population crisis. The reality of negative growth.

If the CCP wants to face the problem squarely, it must start by solving the injustice of the social system. At present, there is generally a consensus proposal in the mainland that is to abolish the family planning policy and open up two children to three children, or even completely unlimited.

This is of course a direction, but the effect is short-lived, just like the opening of the second child in the early years, the birth population only increased slightly for one year, and then turned around and fell back. The biggest problem facing the Chinese and even Hong Kong people is that they are stuck in isolation and helplessness all the time. The interests of most people in society cannot be protected. On the contrary, the whole society must sacrifice collectively to achieve the goal of “national security.”

Yu Jiang, director of the Institute of Modern Law at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, published an article criticizing the CCP’s birth policy in the 21st Century, a publication of the Chinese University of Science and Technology, when there was no national security law in the port area. In the text, he bluntly denounced that there is no guarantee of constitutional government and democratic system, personal interests and property are equal to no defense, intentional or unintentional infringement by the state will make the people feel powerless to resist, and this sense of powerlessness is precisely the reason why the birth rate in China is deteriorating.

He pointed out that after China moved from the family property system of rural society to the personal property system of modern society, it happened to encounter a family planning policy. People used to have a sense of security among large families, but modern society has become a small family and young people live in cities. To work, the elderly and children stay in the countryside, and their lives must depend on the state’s welfare policies. However, China’s social security is backward, and the people are helpless, relying only on themselves, thus leaving society in a state of severe isolation and helplessness.

Headaches can be cured, and foot pains can also be cured only for feet. However, the anxiety of society and the country does not accumulate overnight. The people fall into a pessimistic dilemma, and you start by choosing to restrict personal freedom on the first day. Hong Kong people may be more fortunate to bring their children to emigrate and flee the city of Shang, but the only thing that China can’t leave, is not to give birth, lest the next generation will continue to walk with you.

Cheng Kai

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