ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 8月12日 10時07分

For decades, China harshly restricted the number of babies that women could have. Now it’s encouraging them to have more. It’s not going well. Almost 3 years after easing its “one child” policy and allowing couples to have two children, the government has begun to acknowledge that its efforts to raise the country’s birthrate are faltering because parents are deciding against having more children. Officials are now scrambling to devise ways to stimulate a baby boom, worried that a looming demographic crisis could imperil economic growth. It’s a startling reversal for the party, which only a short time ago imposed punishing fines on most couples who had more than one child and compelled hundreds of millions of Chinese women to have abortions or undergo sterilization operations. Experts say the government has little choice but to encourage more births. China — the world’s most populous nation with more than 1.4 billion people — is aging quickly, with a smaller work force left to support a growing elderly population that is living longer. Some provinces have already reported difficulties meeting pension payments. @giuliamarchiphoto took this photo of a nurse taking care of a newborn this month in Beijing. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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