What is the responsibility of family planning as China’s population enters a period of declining birthrate?

1. China’s family planning policy does not mean one-child policy.

Before the full liberalization of the second-child policy in 2016, China generally implemented the one-child policy in cities in addition to the second child allowed by the policy, causing many people to equate family planning with the one-child policy. In fact, in rural areas, where the majority of China's population is, it is not one child, but one and a half or two children. There are more than 100 million only children in China, accounting for only a minority of the Chinese population.

2. Some people think that China only has family planning policies for the Han ethnic group. In fact, all ethnic groups with a population of more than 10 million in China have family planning policies.

Article 18 of the "Population and Family Planning Law of the People's Republic of China" stipulates that ethnic minorities must also implement family planning. Various localities have formulated corresponding family planning regulations, such as the "Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Population and Family Planning Regulations", "Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Population and Family Planning Regulations", etc.

Currently, the growth of China's ethnic minorities is slightly faster than that of the Han people. The population ratio increased from 6.1% of the national population in 1953 to 8.04% in 1990, 8.41% in 2000, and 8.49% in 2010. At present, the annual growth rate of Han people is 0.56, and the annual growth rate of ethnic minorities is 0.67. According to the sixth national census data, the proportion of Han newborns accounts for more than 88%, and there is an increasing trend.

Among the various ethnic minorities, those with rapid population growth include the Uyghur, Yi, Tibetan and other ethnic groups (but the population growth rate is still half lower than that of similar ethnic groups abroad), the Huizhuang and Miao ethnic groups have a population growth rate similar to that of the Han, and the Manchu The Korean population growth rate is lower than that of the Han population.

3. China is not alone in its family planning policy.

India is the first country in the world to implement family planning. In 1952, it proposed birth control (but it was basically not implemented). Others, such as South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Iran, Taiwan, China, etc., also have Have practiced family planning. Although their family planning policies differed in details, the goal of population control was the same. China is actually a country that started family planning relatively late.

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