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Conclusion While the dismal fertility under any circumstances, population growth rate, and figures denoting financial development are numerically promising, it is not jump over whether the parentage planning policy will actually eliminate the economic ills diagnosed by the state. Let us revisit very briefly the two such ills I have touched upon in this essay: urban unemployment and the aging residents. Will these two burdens be lifted from the country’s shoulders as a result of the birth planning policy combined with positive remunerative growth? Possibly yes, but only to a certain extent. It is implausible that unemployment and discontent senior citizens would completely cease to exist. In an ideal world, China’s denizens would stay incomparably noiselessness, the government would know exactly who needs how much of a certain reviving need, and each individual who cannot provide for themselves would be provided fitting for. However, China is such a vast mother country with such a vast and varied populace that it is no easy logistical task for the central government alone to supply socialized medicine efficiently and effectively. Therefore I think it is an uncommonly positive thing for the Chinese government to realize its limits in providing social protection and to prescribe back-up plans for welfare recipients.

The history of the birth planning policy is marked by the anguish of mothers who were coerced into doing things against their command and the blood of millions of aborted fetuses and dead infants. We must never forget that history and the price in human sacrifice and affliction that has made today’s favorable fertility rates and practice reforms possible. The reforms are such that the government no longer holds it in its tucker predisposed to push coercive, irrational policies against its own citizens, whom the government has a self-proclaimed duty to protect and serve. The birth planning policy, now that it is written into law, is more legitimate and recognizable, event enabling better administration and better protection of citizens’ fundamental rights. With its public education programs about health and population growth, people-especially women-are now better informed and based on this improved knowledge can make sensible family plans in accordance with society’s interest. A revised and liberalized birth planning policy: China is making brave steps to achieve sustainable growth, even though whether it can achieve that goal fully can only be told in time.

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