Why is the population growth in Shanghai so slow?

The Shanghainese mentioned here mainly refers to people with Shanghai household registration. The latest "Shanghai Population Profile in 2008" released by Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Statistics shows that the natural growth rate of registered population in Shanghai has been negative for 16 years. Last year, 90,670 registered people were born in Shanghai, with a birth rate of 6.99%. 65438+7000 people died, with a mortality rate of 7.73%; The natural growth rate is negative 0.74%.

So far, other cities in China have not experienced negative growth. However, according to the author's experience of living in coastal cities all the year round, the willingness of young people in many big cities to do business is obviously reduced. Even without the pressure of their elders, many young people will postpone giving birth indefinitely.

Why has the registered population in Shanghai kept negative growth for 16 years?

The first inevitable reason is the influence of the family planning policy. Objectively speaking, this national policy is strictly implemented in a big city like Shanghai, especially for Shanghainese with official status. In rural areas, there are also cattle people who are willing to take the risk of fines. Ordinary people with Shanghai household registration will not have more children. Most Shanghainese who are willing to have children strictly implement family planning. However, the fact that there is no similar news in other cities shows that the family planning policy is not the whole reason for the negative population growth in Shanghai.

Secondly, the living cost of Shanghai residents is getting higher and higher. The bigger the city, the higher the cost of living. There is no other reason. Ambitious people all over the country want to squeeze in. Competition brings prosperity and prices rise. In the cost of living, the most influential is the cost of raising children. Nowadays, urban children pay attention to competition when they are born, and kindergartens have not entered the compulsory education system, resulting in higher tuition fees for children attending kindergartens than for college students. Primary and secondary schools seem to be compulsory education, but the annual education cost is more than 5,000 yuan, plus various expenses such as making up lessons, running classes and interest groups. These expenses of raising children have discouraged a new generation of young people from having children.

Third, as an international metropolis, Shanghai is influenced by the latest life concepts in Europe and America. With the improvement of the quality of life, the pressure of competition in the workplace and the proliferation of the concept of eating, drinking and having fun, the willingness of the younger generation in Europe and America to have children is greatly reduced. This decrease in fertility enthusiasm even spread to Russia, resulting in a decrease of several million Russian population every year. At present, there are single and dink families in every city, but there is no doubt that most people who believe in this lifestyle are from Shanghai.

Finally, generally speaking, the higher the living standard, the lower the fertility will. People with high living standards no longer have the consideration of "raising children to prevent old age", and naturally choose to leave money, time and energy to themselves and friends. In addition, more and more attention has been paid to the human rights of unborn children. If you are not ready to raise a child, or place your hopes on the child, it is irresponsible to give the child too much pressure in the process of raising a child. As the city with the highest average living standard in China, Greater Shanghai is a group of the childbearing age generation, and it is normal for many people to have this idea.

In fact, the long-term negative population growth in Shanghai is not worth mourning, which shows that the living standards and concepts of Shanghai people are very close to those of Europe and America. In fact, some human resources experts in Europe and America have lamented that if the fertility enthusiasm of white people in Europe and America is not improved, Europe and America are likely to become the world of colored people in the future. Some Americans also exclaimed that the Chinese population will increase greatly in the future, and it may exceed one-third in the 1950s. Hehe, some China people can't show their fertility enthusiasm at home, so they have to emigrate to the United States, Canada and other countries to satisfy the traditional dream of "having more children and being happy"!