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Mu Guangzong
标题图片 Professor and Ph.D Supervisor of Population Research Institute, Peking University, and also the Syndic of China Population Association and the Gerontological Association of China. His main research interests are Institutional Demography, Social Gerontology, Population and Sustainable Development.
2013 January 28
Worrying demographic changes
It's time for China to seriously think about a moderate and optimized fertility, as the base line for sustainable population development, as well as a countermeasure to possible population risks.
2012 July 17
Structural imbalances in population
The nation's low birthrate is an increasingly severe problem that will accelerate the aging of the population, increase the pension shortfall, and aggravate the gender imbalance.
2011 July 18
Low fertility exacerbates imbalances
If the current one-child policy continues unchanged, China will soon face a shrinking, graying workforce taking care of an expanding retired population.
2011 March 25
Ease one-child policy conducive to national development
Analyses show that a fertility rate of 1.8 is a sustainable population growth rate in China, meaning each couple in the countries should be allowed to have two children.

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