One child generation in China: the spoon-fed, the burdened
In October, 2015, to combat the aging society and labor shortage, China announced the end of its 30 years one-child policy, leaving people born in the 1980s and 1990s the only one-child generation.
The one child policy was brought forward to control the growth of Chinese population in 1982 by Deng Xiaoping, the successor Chinese Chairman after Mao Zedong. At that time, the 2.67 birth rate and a population of 1 billion pressured Chinese economic growth. To catch up with global economy, Chinese government nationalized the policy and millions of family were forced to have only one child.
China society label the 150 million people who grew under the policy as “little emperor” in their …show more content…
He thinks a related higher degree in American can help him launch a better job in a Chinese government.
But he never thinks of staying in a foreign country or lives far away from his parents after settling down.
Recently, a Chinese article named “Don’t dare to die, to be poor, to marry far from home, because parents only have you” is popular in Mainland China. It zooms in on not only the economical but also emotional burdens among the one child generation: feel disturbed to go far away from their parents.
Shunji Lu, 24, also pursuing her master’s degree in the U.S., shares the dilemma she is trapped in.
“I want to find a job and settle in America,” she says. “But I don’t want to leave my parents alone in China.” She is reluctant to go back China because of the social pressure on women. A lady of her age without any love experience is considered abnormal. Her future would be “doomed” in China as she describes: goes for tens of hundreds of blind dates, gets married near home, and gives birth to a child before 30. There would be no possibility in her future.
“The burdens on female one child are even much heavier.” She says, “we are obligated to give birth to a child to inherit the
In October, 2015, to combat the aging society and labor shortage, China announced the end of its 30 years one-child policy, leaving people born in the 1980s and 1990s the only one-child generation.
The one child policy was brought forward to control the growth of Chinese population in 1982 by Deng Xiaoping, the successor Chinese Chairman after Mao Zedong. At that time, the 2.67 birth rate and a population of 1 billion pressured Chinese economic growth. To catch up with global economy, Chinese government nationalized the policy and millions of family were forced to have only one child.
China society label the 150 million people who grew under the policy as “little emperor” in their …show more content…
He thinks a related higher degree in American can help him launch a better job in a Chinese government.
But he never thinks of staying in a foreign country or lives far away from his parents after settling down.
Recently, a Chinese article named “Don’t dare to die, to be poor, to marry far from home, because parents only have you” is popular in Mainland China. It zooms in on not only the economical but also emotional burdens among the one child generation: feel disturbed to go far away from their parents.
Shunji Lu, 24, also pursuing her master’s degree in the U.S., shares the dilemma she is trapped in.
“I want to find a job and settle in America,” she says. “But I don’t want to leave my parents alone in China.” She is reluctant to go back China because of the social pressure on women. A lady of her age without any love experience is considered abnormal. Her future would be “doomed” in China as she describes: goes for tens of hundreds of blind dates, gets married near home, and gives birth to a child before 30. There would be no possibility in her future.
“The burdens on female one child are even much heavier.” She says, “we are obligated to give birth to a child to inherit the