China’s population ageing seen as ‘inevitable’ before 2050. Why push more births?

Even a significant recovery in China’s fertility rate would still fail to slow down the country’s ageing process before 2050, a new report has found, though achieving higher birth rates remains critical to preventing a more severe crisis later. “A rapid increase in China’s ageing population rate before 2050 is inevitable,” wrote analysts led by Li Xunlei, chief economist at Zhongtai Securities, in the report. Under an optimistic scenario in which China’s total fertility rate rose to above 1.3...