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The population rate in China has fallen for the third year in a row, and CCP government officials are still resorting to coercive tactics related to reproduction \u2014 but after decades of insisting upon a One Child Policy<\/a>, officials are now invasively pressuring women to have more<\/em> children.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported<\/a> that the population had fallen by over two million, with more deaths reported than births. Now, another year later, the trend has continued, for the third consecutive year. According to NPR<\/a>, the population declined by over one million people, and the gender imbalance in China (due to an ingrained preference for boys over girls) has likewise continued to grow since 1980, when China enacted its now-rescinded One Child Policy<\/a> with the help<\/a> of the United Nations Population Fund<\/a> and the International Planned Parenthood Fund.<\/p>\n

Anyone who violated the policy was punished; on the more lenient side, families were merely fined. However, some visibly pregnant women were literally dragged off the streets, their children forcibly aborted. A cultural preference for sons quickly led to a gender imbalance<\/a> resulting in millions of missing girls today, as people sought sex-selective abortions<\/a> if pregnant with girls instead of boys. This imbalance further contributed to an epidemic of human trafficking<\/a> and the highest suicide rate among women in the world. Still today, the population consists of 104.34 men to every 100 women, according to NPR. One-fifth of the population is aged 60 or over, and getting older, which is straining the government’s health care and pension systems, leading to desperate attempts<\/a> to boost fertility rates \u2014 like subsidizing IVF<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the New York Times<\/a>, those desperate efforts even include officials’ invasive phone calls to women, either urging them to have children or tracking the dates of their last menstrual periods. Some women have reported that government officials showed up at their homes unannounced, asking when they intended to get pregnant. \u201cWhen they came to my home, that was really ridiculous,\u201d 28-year-old Yumi Yang told the Times. \u201cI felt a little disgusted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zhang Rongxing, 38, experienced similar pressure. A mom of two, she said she was contacted by government officials both by phone and in-person at her home, asking her if she intended to have a third child.<\/p>\n

READ: China introduces new initiatives to boost birth rate\u2026 but critics are skeptical<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Additionally, the government is partnering with colleges and universities to spread propaganda about the \u201cpositive view of marriage and childbearing.\u201d President Xi Jinping considers childbirth a national priority, and a way for women to \u201calways walk with the party.\u201d A press release from a government-run family planning association in Mudanjiang said, \u201cSome people believe that marriage and childbirth are only private matters, and up to each individual. This view is wrong and one-sided.”<\/p>\n

In Miyun, a district of Beijing, a 500-person propaganda team is accused of having contacted “suitably aged\u201d couples at least six times.<\/p>\n

Once women do become pregnant, the government remains involved. Women are instructed to register their pregnancies at government-run community health centers, and government officials contact women throughout their pregnancies. \u201cThey say things like, I see that you\u2019re due for an exam,\u201d said 34-year-old Yang Yingying.<\/p>\n

Professor Wang Feng, a demography expert at the University of California, Irvine, told the New York Times that this all proves the mentality around fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth has not actually changed since the One Child Policy was rescinded. \u201cIt\u2019s exactly the same mentality as when they implemented birth controls,\u201d Wang said. \u201cThe government is, I would say, totally oblivious of how society has moved beyond them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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