During the 1980s, in order to foster economic growth, Chinese officials used one-Child policy to ensure that the population stays at around 1.1 to 1,2 billion citizens. Although China managed to bring drastic change to its economic condition, its one–child policy has slained human rights records and resulted in abuse of basic family values. Much of China’s value system revolves around the family, and for those who were the only child of their parent, or who became the second child, have both been going through the burden of a family nexus that has traditional values attached.
The one child policy that got abolished in October last year, has made more than 30 million male bachelors unable to find brides. Moreover, due to forced abortions, there is an acute shortage of workers. Heihachi, or black children, born outside the one-child policy framework, still find it hard to get their rights fulfilled, which include health, education and access to government perks. Although China has reformed its hukou system that will help provide country’s 13 million unregistered citizens legal household registration, it is still an uphill task till that feat is achieved. Many of these black children are females, who were abandoned by their parents, or were never registered in favor of a male son.
For Yao Lu, a professor of sociology at Columbia University, “We can only guess what the goal is. But I feel like it’s basically to redirect urbanization, to relieve the pressure on first-tier cities and redirect migrant flows to second and third tier cities where they need development, they need labor, and can actually absorb a significant number of migrants,”
References
http://thediplomat.com/2016/02/despite-policy-reforms-barriers-to-obtaining-hukou-persist/
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