China's demographics are irrecoverably screwed, there is quite literally no way back. Their population collapse began some years ago and the only thing it can do from here is gather speed. Literally every woman in the country between the ages of 16 and 45 could have three children, a totally laughable hypothetical, and it still wouldn't be enough to stop it.

That's official statistics too, there's some work out there by Chinese Academics shows that it may actually be worse.

[–] Its_not_Dave@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

China is not one to stand by and let things happen naturally if they need to speed things up

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure what your comment means exactly but I don't see any way out of the demographic hole that they're in. Fixing it would require continued forced impregnation of every eligible citizen for at least the next decade and opening up their immigration to levels well beyond anything they've ever allowed. I strongly doubt that Chinese citizens would tolerate the forced impregnation tactic and who the hell would immigrate knowing that it was a requirement?

[–] alternative_factor@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Couldn't they just allow immigration? I get that most people don't want to move to China anymore but it would probably help. I also know they won't but would immigration work in a vacuum?

[–] qtj@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I think a big problem would be population size. China has about the same population as all of Africa. So the question would be where immigrants should come from. I imagine to be helpful china would probably have to become a popular destination for migrants from all of Africa and Asia at a very large scale.

[–] LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Might not work, but they need every set of you hands they can get, so it'd help, at least a bit...