Alice Han
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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Good.
So there's a demography professor who is also the chairman and founder of Ctrip, which is China's big trip booking platform.
And he is now paying his employees $50,000 per baby because he's so worried about the demographic issue in China.
China's replacement rate is now about one, meaning that the population is shrinking.
By 2040, one in three people will be above 60.
It's slightly higher than China.
Japan's lower.
Isn't it below one?
Below one, yeah.
At about close to one, exactly.
And that's a huge implication for growth because if you have an increasing number of the economy above 60, one in three by 2040, then who's going to pay for the healthcare?
Yeah, your social services goes apart.
Yeah, exactly.
And who's going to drive productivity when you have ever shrinking labor force and ever shrinking youth population?
So that's the demographic challenge.
And they're trying to subsidize by giving people more money to have babies.
But women, this is the thing that's understated, I think, in Western media.
And this is why it's actually, if you watch videos on Chinese TikTok, there's a lot of... Is that Weibo?
It's Douyin, like Douyin and Xiaohongshu, which is red note.
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