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  • Essay / Essay on Overpopulation in China - 890

    The video above emphasizes the seriousness of overpopulation. Overpopulation is actually one of the main sources of problems for people around the world, not just the Chinese. However, the problem is greater in China than in other parts of the world. China has the highest population in the world, accounting for 1.2 billion, or twenty-one percent of the world's population. It will face serious social and economic problems linked to overpopulation in the years to come. Overpopulated regions have led to land and resource degradation, pollution and harmful living conditions. The Chinese government has attempted to find a solution to the problem of population increase with moderate success. Through this project, we will explore the causes and effects of this degree of overpopulation. One Child Policy Due to overpopulation in China, the Chinese government has developed the one child policy, to counter this problem. However, this "solution" caused more problems, with 108 men per 100 women, such as China's aging population, which we will discuss below. Now that one-child families are such a common phenomenon, the only child will be very dearly cherished. not only parents, but also grandparents, maternal and paternal. A considerable fraction of these children will be spoiled because they are over-pampered, resulting in “little emperors” and “little empresses,” with very poor social and collaborative skills. Concerns have also been raised about the improbability of this situation for this generation of children. being capable enough to take care of older generations even though they have been adored all their lives. This situation is also known as the “four-two-one problem.” Older generations, not pr... middle of paper ...... buy apartments in incomplete communities but never actually move in, hoping that values ​​will increase, or that they will live there one day. Ironically, people who really need housing can't afford it. These people come from very diverse backgrounds, both urban and rural. Urban dwellers are the typical urban poor such as migrants and elderly, sick or disabled urban residents and, surprisingly, even college graduates and young professionals cannot afford decent housing in large cities. neither do cities. The villagers work in agriculture, with an average salary that can seem exorbitant for the urban workforce. Many children drop out of school at a young age to help in the fields, which traps the family in the cycle of poverty and, with the poverty gap widening, these rural populations may not be able to have enough money to own more real estate..