Mu Guangzong
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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. |
May 18, 2014
- Time to further ease family planning policy
- Further easing the family planning policy will not lead to a population boom, which the authorities fear, because demographic development always moves in waves.
February 26, 2014
- To give or not to give birth abroad
- At the beginning of this century, many women from countries and regions like the Republic of Korea were traveling to the US to give birth to ensure that their children got US citizenship.
February 23, 2014
- Moving towards equal access to pensions
- A good institutional design should be conducive to possible change. This is just what a unified pension system offers.
December 3, 2013
- Toward a balanced population
- China's demographic dividends have been deteriorating since the early 1980s because of the family planning policy, under which most urban couples could have only one child. Among the problems it has created is the yawning gender imbalance.
November 18, 2013
- A beginning, not an end
- The adjustment is considered to be a breakthrough in relaxing China's family planning policy. However, this step should be a beginning, rather than the end, of family planning policy reform.
August 15, 2013
- Family policy deserves a rethink
- It's time the authorities weighed the pros and cons of the family planning policy, which was implemented in the late 1970s.
May 28, 2013
- The travails of having a second child
- The government should respect people's individual, rather than social, decisions when it comes to family planning.
January 28, 2013
- 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.
July 17, 2012
- 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.
July 18, 2011
- 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.
