overpopulation in china?

Question

ok so i have a history project about the overpopulation in China and i need help. what is a solution to end it....i need one atleast but i would LOVE more!!!

Answer 1

First of all, to Mr. Academic (2nd answerer): But in the days when China evenly distributed everything to everyone (1950 - 1978), you academics where saying the problem was communism. It won't work. So you use sanctions and cold war to get rid of communism. Now, China has adapted market economy and all of sudden there are gaps between rich and poor, and you are saying the problem is distribution. Can you people make up your mind? What the heck do you really want? Anyway, regardless how old the asker is, I think when you have 1.3 billion people living in the same land area as the U.S. I think there is a problem of over population. Have you ever thought of having 4 times of the current US population living in the U.S. right now? If you live in an apartment by yourself, think of if 3 more people will move in tomorrow? Will you consider that being crowded?

Okay now... To answer the question. There is no solution to end over population in China because you can't decrease what you've already got. So the solution is to control it so it doesn't get any worth. To do that, there are a few things you have to do all at the same time. They are: 1. increase the education level of the general populations and teach them that having more children is not going to make the lives better (as that's a traditional thinking in Chinese culture); 2. Speed up economical, social and technology development so that the society move forward with technology replacing the need to use more human than it needs; 3. I don't know if the Chinese goverment is doing this on purpose or not, but it seems to be the case that currently raising a child is so expensive in China, people in the cities are willingly not to have a 2nd child or not to have children at all; Last but not least, promote gender equality. In China, many times, when couple's first child is a girl, they would want to have another one to get a boy...

Answer 2

What grade are you in? Are you in high school?
Was this projet assigned to you, or chosen by you?

The reason I ask is that I am in graduate school studying geography right now, and the current consenses in the academic community is that "overpopulation" is just a social construction and is not actually the problem. The problem is resource distribution. China SEEMS overpopulated because many people are poor and don't have enough land or food. But China is actually an extraordinarly fertile country and it is huge. China has PLENTY of room for its 1.3 billion people. There is no reason why China is "overpopulated". The problem is that food and land and resources are not distributed evenly. Some people in China are very rich and control lots of land and have lots of power. Academics call this unenven power relations.

I'm not sure what grade you're in. If you're young this might be a little too complicated for your paper, but if you're mature and curious, I would encourage you to look into this issue more deeply. Feel free to email me if you want. I could turn you to some interesting websites with useful information for your project.
Good luck.

Answer 3

Well, control the birth rate. Educate people to use birth control.

Answer 4

i am a chinese. i think our government did a lot of work to solution this problem.
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