Commentary: Raising the retirement age won’t defuse China’s demographic time bomb

THE NEED FOR Relocation

There is, however, something that can alleviate this pattern: Immigration.

Many of the world’s leading nataliation levels rely on international migration to produce younger laborers, and these younger immigrants also have more children than the local population.

Compare, for example, China’s lower level of 0.1 per share foreign-born with the almost 14 per cent foreign-born in the US and 18 per cent in Germany. Yet the East Asian nations of Japan and South Korea have higher foreign-born ratios than China, at 2 per cent and 3.7 per cent, both.

The Taiwanese government has made a number of attempts to put policies in place to increase the delivery rate into place, but they have failed. In fact, practitioners tend to agree that like “pronatalist” plans tend not to be successful.

However, it wo n’t be simple to implement and implement an active immigration policy in China, a nation with few immigration-related successes and a scheiningly deep-rooted belief in racial purity shared by many Communist Party leaders.

The larger Chinese people may be opposed to multiculturalism. The most affected by an increase in immigrants would be the young Chinese staff. Some Chinese may lose their jobs and need to relocate if any policy that promotes mass immigration were to begin. This would be the case more often for fresh workers.

However, refugees generally seek employment in occupations that the local population does not want, sometimes referred to as” three Wii work” or as dirty, dangerous, and demeaning occupations. In the US and most of Europe, respectively, this has happened.

And the long-term effects will be more agonizing for China. By the start of the second centuries, China may be half as big as it is now and one of the oldest nations in the world, if not the oldest nation.

Beijing is already under the strain of these changes, so pension reforms are necessary. The issues China will face will be much worse, however, without the arrival of a young refugee workforce.

Dudley L Poston Jr is Professor of Sociology, Texas A&amp, M University. This commentary&nbsp, second appeared&nbsp, on The Conversation.