Shanghainese Say No to A 2nd Child; Officials Disappointed

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Ariana Eunjung Cha, In aging China, a change of course; Looming population
crisis forces officials to rethink one-child policy, but couples hesitate.
Washington Post, Dec. 12, 2009.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/11/AR2009121104378.html


-----------------Separately
(1) Wang Hongyi, Shanghai residents feel the price pinch. China Daily, Dec.
12, 2009.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-12/12/content_9165854.htm
(A a 54-year-old office worker surnamed Gu earns 1,600 yuan a month--and
with his wife together they make about 3,000 yuan a month)

My comment: The above figures are believable. So, when I read from the same
report: "According to the Shanghai statistics bureau, the average pay of an
employee in Shanghai was 3,292 yuan a month last year, 13.8 percent more
than 2007. But even after that increase, more than 500,000 people depend on
the government's monthly subsistence allowance." I was unconvinced. I am not
saying that statistics lie. Rather, most people know the difference between
an average and a median. Shanghai has numerous billionaires (in dollars,
not in yuan). So, a median income might tell us another story.

(2) 学者：建立有中国特色养老体系. VOA Chinese, Dec. 12, 2009.
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/china/Chinaproblem-20091212-79122117.html

Note: 齐铱 Professor Iris Chi, Chinese-American Golden Age Association/
Frances Wu Chair for the Chinese Elderly
School of Social Work, Univ. of Southern California
http://sowkweb.usc.edu/people/details.php?pg=106

Note:
(a) Judging from her bachelor's degree, she is from Hong Kong.
(b) 老人院/敬老院 nursing home
(c) Her most recent publication on China's elderly is

L. Chu, I. Chi, Nursing Homes in China. Journal of the American Medical
Directors Association, Volume 9, Pages 237-243.
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1525861008000108
(abstract)

(3) Jeff Gammage, In Shanghai, communism is giving way to commerce. Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 11, 2009.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/79034822.html
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