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> It’s crazy to me that this ‘after school study’ was identified as a major reason for declining birth rates, as if decades of policy and the ensuing culture co
by fqye 5y ago
> It’s crazy to me that this ‘after school study’ was identified as a major reason for declining birth rates, as if decades of policy and the ensuing culture could turn on a dime and the government could ramp womb production by 250% from the party offices.
It is again another example of superficial interpretation of what's happening in China.
Benefits of for profit off school tutoring of core subjects like Chinese literature, math, English have been debated for a lot time in China by educators, academics and government officials. And there were study and theories that those tutoring have no link to actual academic benefits. There were such studies in China, Germany, Korea and many other countries.
For profit k-12 tutoring companies have been using all means to drive up parents' anxieties of fearing their children to be left behind if not to take the courses.
And because of fierce competitions, most smaller k-12 tutoring companies couldn't survive and they often make a big sales push to collect as much tuition, as much as tens of thousands of RMB per child before they close and run. It happened so many times that media lost interest in them.
Chinese government always plays heavy hands in market. This is no different. But the decision itself isn't as simple and sensational as to boost child birth.
- taobaobao 5y agoI don't think it's a superficial interpretation at all. CCP (or Xi JingPing) won't make a stability-destroying change like this just for the sensability (because they would have done it years ago). CCP do things like this to survive, because they fear losing the mandate of the heavens, and get overthrown. How do you lose mandate of the heavens? If economy is bad. Why is the economy bad? Because democracies around the world are now uniting against the CCP. Because by 2040, 1/3 of China's population will be over 60 and out of the workforce. Who's gonna fill up that workforce? Not the kids if there are 20-30% less kids. Incidently, the CCP is so afraid of losing the mandate of the heavens recently, that the recent flooding in Henan, which killed thousands https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/opz2gt/chinese_police_brutally_scattered_people_who/ https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/opz2gt/chinese_polic..., wasn't even reported on the front page by Henan newspaper!! https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/oqvum2/todays_front_page_of_henan_daily_after_henan_has/ https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/oqvum2/todays_front_...
- Aperocky 5y agoAlmost the entire second paragraph is patently false, you probably should have stayed in r/China.
- taobaobao 5y agoTypical reaction from Chinese government sympathizer/nationalist. Blank downvote or outright rejection with no explanation. I don't think you need to bother to hide my post, the free world is waking up to how bad the Chinese government is. So do Chinese citizens that are awake.
- hkmaxpro 5y agoIt’s explicitly mentioned in their official document on population growth. See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27957141 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27957141