The Alarming Decline in China's Birth Rate - Intermediate Chinese - Chinese Audio Podcast - HSK 5

How can the world's most populous country be approaching a population crisis due to a decreasing birth rate? Eileen and Yifei discuss this surprising Chinese problem.
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[@HarryPotterFan2110]

I love Yifei! She does so much research and has so much on hand knowledge on these topics! Eileen! Your podcasts and interviews are my favourite! Thank you for the content!

[@GregTrencher]

This is really great work from you both. I learned a lot and appreciate these "serious" topics as much as your more humorous ones. Yifei is great too

[@jeanbon6710]

I did hsk4 exam today :) Thank you for your channel, thanks to it my chinese improved a lot ! I subscribed to be a member like one year ago :) 谢谢你的视频，很有用啊！

[@whowantsusernames]

I love Yifei. Her Chinese is beautiful. Glad to see she is back again!

[@15multiventure51]

An extremely interesting and eye-opening discussion for me (English man living in Thailand). I appreciate the accuracy of the English translation .. almost no mistakes. I am following this channel with great interest. Thank you

[@MandarinCorner2]

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[@lauyumei7825]

You both did a good job, Yifei have a great knowledge on this topic! love you both.

[@exotikgreen8807]

Amazing work, let's feed the algorithm 🤘

[@johnlesoudeur3653]

I have started mirroring Yifei by using "mmm" to add a partial period (and a little suspense) lol. Such an interesting discussion. Thanks.

[@SammyD1111]

Love this format. Thanks so much!

[@user-lh2hx5xf4e]

又是怡菲！😻我很喜歡她！😻

[@johnwalz2832]

Best on the internet, thank you.

[@KostaRadojkovic123]

Great video, i am really happy to see YiFei in this episode.

[@stevendiep6053]

thank you so much for making these videos. They are super helpful and has greatly contributed to my understanding of the Chinese language. Can you please make a video on top 100 Chinese idioms?

[@AshinAsia]

I just got the email for this new film and saw it has 怡菲, so I'll watch it this afternoon. I like listening to her speaking. Thanks Eileen!

[@nelsonma798]

Excellent video. Thank you the in-depth summary of China’s population situation in the past and now. Please keep up the good work.

[@polinamartinez4119]

Thank you for your content! You are my favorite Chinese teacher! all the best

[@teresinharoberts6421]

Great interview!

[@natefoto]

Love your videos, thanks so much!

[@cstchannel3471]

You are really hardworking, after watching your helpful videos I was able to speak, read and write Chinese and improved my listening power. Wishing you success in every walk of life. Love From Pakistan

[@MandarinCorner2]

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[@hy02.02]

Great work, 辛苦你了！

[@Xinnabst1]

这次博客非常有意思！我觉得很多人以传统思想为理由生子，但是养孩子是其中生活中的最大的负担，所以这个问题需要深刻思考。作为女性，我支持所有选择不生孩子的人，但是人口出生率下降也是相当严重的问题，所以我认为一个能完全解决这些问题的办法可能不存在

[@bingolittle8725]

Eileen 很impressive 农村出生的孩子变成KZbin有名，希望Eileen能出国玩

[@muhammad897]

我觉得这个博客非常有趣。感谢Eileen和怡菲！！！ 博客中在9:40可能有小的错误。 怡菲提到“清朝初期的3千万左右“，但是几乎到处在其他的文章中都写的一亿五千万左右“。是哪个呢?

[@okmoonshapedlimb1505]

谢谢老师!

[@chrystels.1]

一如既往的棒。谢谢

[@mingawanga]

Nice stats and interesting conversation, love to hear these discussions although the economic future does appear rather grim and the path towards Japan-like future seems rather inevitable

[@petelovatt8357]

The world's population is far too big and we consume far too much. We have to stop prioritising economic growth.

[@alexandervowles3518]

@@petelovatt8357 It'll cap out at ~11 billion.

[@petelovatt8357]

@@alexandervowles3518 Bring on the collapse

[@yaorichardkanga3526]

太谢谢您了.

[@FilipP88]

多谢🙏

[@charlesayache6801]

Regarding the catstrophic conditions of life of most of the populationof the planet, the global pollution, the greenhouse effect, the warming atmosphere, the rising oceans, the desappearance of hundereds of animal species due to pollution, reduced habitat, we need to reduce the global human population and the huge damages humanity causes to the planet and to itself and not long,hope or work for growth. It's more than time to wake up! Its time to decrease population and growth, because, if not, life will be unbearable.

[@fiddleronthecube7835]

Evidently it's a no-child one family trend, or maybe women want careers instead of babies. Japan is also at a low birth-rate period.

[@stalker21able]

Great, thanks to YOu

[@hungnguyen-me5gk]

订阅了你们差不多两年中文也厉害多了。谢谢啦

[@superoriginalname]

I need to move to China and solve this problem myself

[@Adi-xs5dw]

how would you solve it? are you that rich? do you think Ch women would want to have your baby?

[@Mithril_Antimarr]

Arguably China has struggled to feed it's population for some time with Chinese fishing fleets venturing ever further from home to secure enough food. While newer birth rate trends might be alarming in terms of economic impacts it might move China onto a more sustainable footing that requires less conflicts with neighbours over scarce food resources and contribute to a more stable future for the Chinese state over the long term.

[@user-chris_zervakis]

we need to see Yifei more on MC podcasts. She always knows the topic and can analyze deeply. ❤ Both of you make a good team. I have two chinese friends and they say it's better if the population drops to 700 to 800 million. I do not agree, maintaining chinese population over 1 billion is good idea and the path to keep the country on track of economic growth.

[@pansaltman]

Eileen, 你的衣服很漂亮! 这台节目很有意思！安安1

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I am watching your video every day, but I am not your subscriber, because I don't know Chinese language, but I I trust to myself one day I will learned your language by your videos。🤩🤩

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[@isnisse3896]

Duo xie laoshi!

[@user-dp6rs1uw5w]

How come Yifei use so many tricky words that people usually would not use in conversation?

[@MandarinCorner2]

Because in everyday casual conversation, people would not be needing to use the specialized vocabulary needed to discuss the the topics and concepts contained in this video. But if someone want to have the option of conversing about deeper topics with educated Chinese , then they might consider listening to these type of videos. Otherwise, their conversation level and the range of topics that they can discuss with Chinese, will never grow beyond that of a 12 year Chinese child.

[@PierreMiniggio]

第七個留言 for the algo' ! :D

[@runrunRun-fx9wd]

摊丁入亩是雍正的功劳；北宋王安石年间开始废除徭役

[@adamizakaya]

As a handsome American @ me

[@El-Ge]

The foolish says that they have 1,4 billion people, so, even though none is born in next 20 or 30 years, they will still have 1 billion people. That's still a vast people.

[@liambird2053]

我觉得现在的女性比以前的女性自由和独立， 但是社会还使用传统标准决定男性是不是为结婚合适。 革命为给女性更多自由已经发生着， 但是社会（每个世界的国家的社会）需要革命为改变男性的生活有没有成功的标准。

[@tonysofla]

All industrialized countries are suffering from low birth rates, but China can create incentives without sounding super racists as they are 99% Han-Chinese. USA can't say they only want white kids as blacks are already roaming the ghettos. France and Germany can't say it only applies to the natives.

[@michaelrenper796]

This must be the most misinformed and racist comment I have seen for a while. The sad fact is, the writer doesn't even realize it.

[@tonysofla]

@@michaelrenper796 Why does U.S have zero days paid maternity leave? because the "wrong people" would use it. Can a Euro leader say they would like to target the natives in getting higher birth rate for that group?. China can do what they want as they are all Chinese, no backlash of being called racists.

[@darbynerd8838]

Raise fertility wont be an issue, there are societies with high fertility rate, and societies with low fertility. So the answer there, is already very simple what we must do.

[@puxavidasharmain]

我觉得这个博客非常有趣。感谢Eileen和怡菲！！！ 博客中在9:40可能有小的错误。 怡菲提到“清朝初期的3千万左右“，但是几乎到处在其他的文章中都写的一亿五千万左右“。是哪个呢?

[@MandarinCorner2]

怡菲说：关于清初的人口有不同的数据，有的说是几千万，有的说是1亿左右，一种说法是根据推测，实际的人口应该是上亿的，但是官方统计的数字没那么多。

[@puxavidasharmain]

@@MandarinCorner2 谢谢你们的回答。 保持良好的工作态度！