标题: 劳动力有效供给每15年减1亿: 中国 [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 5-12-2019 12:38 标题: 劳动力有效供给每15年减1亿: 中国 Robyn Dixon, Chinese Millennials Are Rejecting Dull Factory Jobs — and Transforming the Economy. Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2019 https://www.latimes.com/world/la ... 20190512-story.html
("With an aging population, the workforce is predicted to shrink rapidly — by 100 million every 15 years from 2020 — according to National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In the meantime, factory bosses are caught short in finding adequate employees, as some factories automate more quickly than others")
My comment:
(a) I can not blame anyone who does not want a monotonous job. What jolts me in this report is what is quoted above. Its link leads to
Zhang Hui and Yin Han, Rare Study From Top Advisory Body Shows [population Issue a 'National crisis.' Global Times, July 16, 2018 www.globaltimes.cn/content/1111080.shtml
five consecutive paragraphs:
"The labor supply of China will continue to decrease. It is estimated that the working population of the country will be 631 million in 2020, and the number will drop to 523 million in 2035, and 424 million in 2050, said a survey from the population commission of the National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
"The survey, which lasted one month and ended in June, said that the fast developing AI technology of China can help solve the problems brought by the shrinking labor force.
"The survey, which was rare in its kind, showed that more government agencies have realized the sustained low fertility rate in the country, demographic expert Huang Wenzheng told the Global Times.
"The survey, published in a report of a newspaper affiliated with the CPPCC, found that the total number of births in East China's Shandong Province, where residents "have the greatest wish to have a second child," actually dropped in 2017 compared to that in 2016.
"The report attributed the main reason to people's worries that they financially 'couldn't afford a second child' although they are willing to have one.
(b) "a newspaper affiliated with the CPPCC." This brings me to
廉维亮, 人口三问——全国政协 '中长期人口变动与经济社会发展' 专题调研综述. 人民政协报, July 3, 2018, 08版epaper.rmzxb.com/detail.aspx?id=426317 https://epaper.rmzxb.com/detail.aspx?id=426317