As birth rate falls below warning line, China tries to facilitate nurseries

A mom does Yoga with her child cuddled into her bosom [CGTN-CFP]
A mom does Yoga with her child cuddled into her bosom [CGTN-CFP]
CGTN | 10-Jan-2021 | Yang Xuemin

Four years ago, 46-year-old Sun Hongtao decided to have another baby as the country abolished the strict one-child policy. Before his 40-year-old wife gave birth to a daughter, he had never imagined that raising two kids could be so challenging, because as a middle-aged man, few people around him choose to have another child due to busy work schedule and limited physical vigor. Continue reading “As birth rate falls below warning line, China tries to facilitate nurseries”

China-U.S. Ties: Measuring it with a new metric

China-U.S. Ties-Measuring it with a new metric [CGTN]
China-U.S. Ties-Measuring it with a new metric [CGTN]
CGTN | 09-Jan-2021 | Tian Wei

“Traditional big power relations gauge national power through GDP. But GDP is not the right standard to judge these relations. By 2030 China’s total GDP will surpass the U.S. But so what? How about China’s high tech, per capita GDP or quality of life? We need new standards to judge relations,” said Yuan Peng, president of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations. Continue reading “China-U.S. Ties: Measuring it with a new metric”