This book mainly addresses China’s current demographic situation and social people-related policies. It aims to solve the issues of demographic transition, population aging, population flow, urbanization, population quality, etc. China is the first large population country, with the vast territory and the huge economic system. It has many issues such as productivity and production relations, superstructure and economic base, and domestic and international relations in various fields and at all levels. Hence, China needs to come up with a set of overall strategies. The author sorts out all of his works in recent years and performs his new academic achievements on demographic issues and social governing strategies. This timely book offers new methods that impact advanced social development with real data.
Author(s): Xueyuan Tian
Series: Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 232
City: Singapore
Series Preface
Contents
1 Preface
1.1 Population Strategy and Policies
1.2 Population and Economic Development
1.3 Population Aging and Old-Age Security
1.4 Population Mobility and Urbanization
1.5 Population Quality and Sustainable Development
2 Population Strategy and Policies
2.1 China’s Population Strategy: The Second Step Holds the Key
2.1.1 The Cornerstone of Population Strategy
2.1.2 The Three Steps of China’s Population Strategy
2.1.3 The Second Step Holds the Key
2.2 Theory and Practice of Demographic Transition
2.2.1 Traditional Demographic Transition Theory
2.2.2 Discussion on Post-demographic Transition
2.2.3 The Course of Demographic Transition in China
2.3 Timely Adjustment of Family Planning Policy
2.3.1 Adjusting the Family Planning Policy to Reflect Changing Realities
References
3 Population and Economic Development
3.1 Seize the Opportunity to Accelerate Economic Transformation and Upgrading After the Demographic Golden Age
3.1.1 The Post-demographic Golden Age
3.1.2 Investigation into Economic Downward Trend
3.1.3 Accelerating the Reform of Economic Transformation and Upgrading
3.2 The Trend of Population Slowdown and Weak Consumption
3.2.1 The Trend of Population Slowdown in the 21st Century
3.2.2 The Trend of Weak Consumption
3.2.3 Pursuing Moderate Growth in Green Consumption
3.3 My View on the New Normal of Economic Growth Rate
3.3.1 Two Types of New Normal
3.3.2 The New Normal of Economic Slowdown
3.3.3 Maintaining the Development Speed of the New Normal
References
4 Population Aging and Old-Age Security
4.1 Population Aging and Innovation in the Endowment Insurance System
4.1.1 The Trend of Population Aging in the 21st Century
4.1.2 Characteristics of China’s Population Aging
4.1.3 Innovation in the Endowment Insurance System
4.2 China’s Endowment Insurance Reform Starts a New Journey: Breaking Through the Barrier of the “Double Dual Structure” System
4.2.1 Background: The Reform Reflects Social Equity
4.2.2 Urban Areas: Towards a Unified Pension System
4.2.3 Rural Areas: Upgraded New Rural Endowment Insurance
4.3 Comprehensive Deepening of the Reform in Old-Age Care System
4.3.1 Realities of Old-Age Care in China
4.3.2 All-Around Top-Level Design of Old-Age Security System
4.3.3 Deepening the Reform of Endowment Insurance System
References
5 Population Mobility and Urbanization
5.1 Upgrading Urbanization with Reforms
5.1.1 Adjusting Urbanization-Related Policies
5.1.2 Reforming the Dual Household Registration System
5.1.3 Reforming Land Finance
5.2 Urbanization Bubble and City-Invigorating Reform
5.2.1 A Panorama of Urbanization Bubble
5.2.2 The Essential Problem: “Big Cities with a Small Core”
5.2.3 An Urgent Need for City-Invigorating Reform
References
6 Population Quality and Sustainable Development
6.1 Education Reform to Start Anew
6.1.1 Starting from Qian Xuesen’s Reflections
6.1.2 De-administerization Reform
6.2 Human Civilization: The Game Between Human Control System and Natural Control System
6.2.1 The Development Course of Civilization
6.2.2 The Ultimate Significance of Ecological Civilization
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