LA Times quotes Professor Susan Shirk
China's elderly will overwhelm the nation
07/06/2009
David Pierson,
Los Angeles Times, Shanghai
WORLD ECONOMY - The one-child rule imposed 30 years ago has created too few young people to support the quickly expanding aging population.
For three decades China's one-child policy helped power this nation's economic rise. With fewer mouths to feed, families saved. Poverty fell. Living standards improved. But a social experiment that worked well in some respects is now threatening the country's hard-won gains. China's working-age population -- the engine behind its prolific growth -- will start shrinking within a few years.
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