China faces a demographic crisis. Its birth rate has halved over the last ten years. When asked about their ideal family size, many young women say they want one child or no children at all.

David Rennie, The Economist’s Beijing bureau chief, and Alice Su, our senior China correspondent, consider the lingering effects of the one-child policy. Eight years after it ended, how does the policy affect how Chinese people imagine the ideal family size?

Read more : https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2024/04/30/why-the-one-child-policy-still-affects-chinas-birth-rate (The Economist)

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