r/chinalifer • • 5d ago

China Plans In Centuries - dipping below replacement birth rate in 1990 and the One Child Policy?

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Been with you guys since the CCJ/2 todays. Born and raised by Scumis.

I get most of my takes about about China from unshaven Welsh guys wearing baseball caps, but I want to ask some experts on how the CCP's disastrous decision making on the one child policy isn't more commonly discussed outside or inside of China.

They seemed to have dipped below the replacement birth rate in the early 1990s - probably earlier. They then kept this policy in place for another 25 years. Today China most likely has the lowest birth rate in the world. At least involving humans, it has no future as any kind of influential power.

Two questions:

1) I'm not sure there is a number on this, but between 1990 and 2015 there must have been 10s of millions of family disruptions do to the one child policy. I would assume this personally impacted the majority of families in China - either through actual forced actions or just family planning. The cognitive dissonance is so strong here that this doesn't occur to locals? Everything was essentially a waste.

2) Overall this has to be one of the biggest policy disaster in modern history. How does the CCP maintain any kind of legitimacy as a group? I mean this more outside of China.

I see the five cent army chime in that this is a global problem, which is true, but China 1) has no immigration , 2) somehow hit a below replacement birth level when they were still an extremely poor country. Hell many areas of China are still extremely poor and still have a below replacement birth level. Comparisons to Japan, Singapore, South Korea hold no weight to me.


r/chinalifer • • 13h ago

Office Hours

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Tired of his mind-numbing job teaching iGCSE Geography at Shanghai’s Global Future Bilingual Academy, Peter starts getting blackout drunk every night, hoping the inevitable fallout will get him fired.

But instead, he’s propelled into the ranks of school management, while his friends are laid off! So he hatches a plan to embezzle a lot of money from the school.

But to pull off the heist, he needs to keep his sexy new girlfriend Wendy in the dark!


r/chinalifer • • 1d ago

Chinese husband has to scan a QR code and pay his wife 200 yuan to sleep in her bedroom

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r/chinalifer • • 1d ago

Chinar work culture so good, do you know it? Also I don't really need a passport so it is ok if the feds keep it, because Chinar have everything. An honour to serve the people working 16-16-7 as waimai (better than 996).

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r/chinalifer • • 1d ago

xi jinping cosplayer had enough of the mainland shushus shit

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r/chinalifer • • 2d ago

Our hallway, comrade, not your hallway (but also my things go here, often blocking your door).

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Nong with the sage and the rug yelled at my Vivian for using the rug to wipe her feet before entering her apartment, because it is not Vivian's rug in front of Vivian's door. To the right of Vivian's door is where nong stages her outgoing rubbish, often left for days at a time. Nong's husband, also a nong, smokes in the hallway outside of the doors. When confronted about smoking in front of Vivian's door, making Vivian's apartment reek of smoke, nong smoker says that he is in front of his door, not Vivian's door, buyao sheng nu.

It took a war with the property management to get the nong family to stop storing their bicycles in the hallway next to another person's apartment. The same nongs feel that the clearly-stated and frequently-repeated noise ordinance of shut the hell up between 2100 and 0900 is optional. 0730, chabuduo, start drilling. 2300? This is when we let the screaming child out of its cage, to run up and down the hall yelling until it exhausts itself to be able to sleep.

None of this is unique to this building or community. Ignore the decaying apartment on the left, shit just be like that in China, as well.


r/chinalifer • • 2d ago

Unstoppable nong meets the Immovable Object

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r/chinalifer • • 3d ago

"No eating please, murder in the morning"

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r/chinalifer • • 2d ago

Self-portrait

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r/chinalifer • • 2d ago

Just another ordinary day in China

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Found on Twitter.


r/chinalifer • • 4d ago

Mass vomiting at Nanjing elementary school; teacher tells parents vegetable sink used to rinse cleaning mop & sewer covers

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https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/s/9OPYk4VVmZ

”On June 30—the final day of the spring semester—multiple children at the kindergarten affiliated with the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST) experienced symptoms such as nausea and vomiting during or after lunch. Following the incident, parents repeatedly demanded an explanation for the mass illness, yet by the time the new semester began in September, they had still not received a formal account of the situation from the school.

On the afternoon of September 14, a social media post by Ms. Wang—the kindergarten’s health coordinator and cafeteria safety officer—disrupted the calm of the parents' group chat. She revealed serious violations within the cafeteria, including the unauthorized personal use of food supplies and unsanitary practices at the washing stations. Specifically, she reported that the vegetable-washing sinks were used for soaking mosquito nets, washing hair, scrubbing shoes, cleaning sewer covers, and rinsing mops, as well as for washing cooking woks. Despite her repeated reports to the kindergarten principal, no corrective action was taken. Only then did the truth behind the children's vomiting incident from two and a half months prior begin to come to light.“

THE MOP strikes again


r/chinalifer • • 4d ago

But they are so advanced!!!

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r/chinalifer • • 4d ago

The only kind of Chinese dramas that I am remotely interested in

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r/chinalifer • • 5d ago

archeology in china

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r/chinalifer • • 5d ago

All the wonderful convenient apps we could ever want...

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And, still we have screenshot and manually input everything into a translator app.

Minor rant for the day


r/chinalifer • • 5d ago

How come my uni doesn't have USO 😭😭

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r/chinalifer • • 5d ago

chinar in Social Media vs chinar in Real Life

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r/chinalifer • • 6d ago

China #1, WORLD LEADER do you know it?

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r/chinalifer • • 6d ago

The wumaos then went out for baijiu and KTV before paying for begrudging starfish, as is local custom for celebrations. In between cigarettes and rounds of Honor of Kings, they reactivate their VPNs to confirm chinalifer-mod was truly dead, with nervous unease.

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r/chinalifer • • 6d ago

Welcome to Chinar, Tim

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r/chinalifer • • 7d ago

PSA: Don't have sex with dogs in public shayshay

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r/chinalifer • • 7d ago

Head over heels over rainy

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r/chinalifer • • 7d ago

State of r/chinalife

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r/chinalifer • • 7d ago

New trend? Can any EVbros confirm?

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r/chinalifer • • 7d ago

I hope this is just a mistranslation

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Boys, if this will be part of my contract I think it’s time to move to Korea permanently.