scholarly journals Who is leading China's family planning policy discourse in Weibo? A social media text mining analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Deng ◽  
Jia‐Huey Hsu ◽  
Karl Löfgren ◽  
Wonhyuk Cho
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Family Planning Policy ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
Social Media Text

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF THE UNIVERSAL TWO-CHILD POLICY ON CHINA’S FUTURE AGING AND POPULATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S706-S706
Author(s):  
Can Jia ◽  
Handong li
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Leslie Matrix ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Growth Trend ◽  
Family Planning Policy ◽  
Registration System ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
The Impact

Abstract China’s aging situation is becoming more and more prominent, and both the people and the government are facing unprecedented pressure of providing for the aged. For this reason, the Chinese government began implementing a new family planning policy for couples to have two children since 2016 (referred to as “universal two-child policy”). In order to explore the impact of the newly released policy, our research is based on the sixth census of China. And first, we use the cohort-component method and a Leslie matrix to construct the population prediction model. Considering some certain unique factors in China, such as the significant urban-rural dual structure and the household registration system and so on, we divide the total fertility rate into urban and rural areas which fully reflects the characteristics of China’s family planning policy. Then we predict and analyze the number and structure of China population between 2011 and 2050 based on the three scenarios of high, medium and low. And the results show that the Chinese population will present an inverted pyramid structure, and the population structure will continue to deteriorate. Besides, we adapt three indicators to analyze the aging trend in China, namely, the old-age coefficient, the population aging index, and the social dependency ratio. And the three indicators of China will continue to grow under the universal two-child policy with different changing rate, which means, the newly released policy will not change China’s aging population growth trend and the severity of China’s aging.

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