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China's Gender Imbalance Alleviated but Still Grave The notoriously problematic gap between the number of boys andgirls born in China has reduced for three consecutive years, thefirst sustained alleviation in the gender ratio in 30 years, said areport in the March 29th edition of People's Daily newspaper. But the figure is still higher than a warning limit and the countryfaces an arduous task to redress its gender imbalance, according tothe flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China. Census data released by the National Bureau of Statistics showedthat in 2011, China's gender ratio stood at 117.78 newborn boys forevery 100 baby girls, a continuous decline from 119.45 in 2009 and117.94 in 2010. This result indicates that government measures, includingcrackdowns on illegal prenatal gender tests and selectiveabortions, are proving effective, Zhang Jian, a publiccommunication official of the National Population and FamilyPlanning Commission (NPFPC), told the newspaper. A natural gender ratio at birth should be somewhere between 103 and107 boys to every 100 girls.
Due to the higher mortality rate ofboys, the ratio will balance off by the time each generationreaches an age to have their own children. However, since ultrasound inspections have enabled fetal gendertesting in China in the 1980s, the country's gender ratio fornewborn babies has hovered at a high level, and reached 120.56 in2008. Even after the decrease of the past three years, the figure isstill 10 percentage points above the warning limit, which meansnewborn males outnumber females by 10 percent, the article said. It is estimated that, by 2020, there will be 24 million more menthan women at marriage age in China. And the serious gender imbalance is not only a population problem,but also a grave social problem, Zhang noted.
Between August 2011 and March 2012, six governmental departmentsincluding the NPFPC and the ministries of health and publicsecurity launched special campaigns to crack down on illegal gendertests and abortions. Also, in 2011, local authorities in east China's Jiangxi provincesolved 2,064 cases of such violations, revoked the licenses of 312medical workers involved, and detained and sentenced 83 people. Experts have also proposed enhanced efforts to promote equalopportunities and the social status of females as a fundamentalsolution to the problem. The preference for boys in Chinese society became conventional inChina's era of under-development, when boys were favored asstronger laborers.
The problem lingers in modern China, though. Even in some of thecountry's affluent coastal areas, gender ratio figures areclimbing, the article noted. Excepting improvement in education levels of girls and women,females are still left behind their male counterparts in jobopportunities, career positions and salary, said Yang Juhua, ademographic professor with Renmin University of China. Source: Xinhua. I am an expert from Blank Records & Tapes, usually analyzes all kind of industries situation, such as red ball jets , convertible top motors.
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