The purpose of family planning in China, in a popular slogan, is to "control the population and improve the quality of the population". This slogan puts "population control" in the first place. In practice, family planning only focuses on population control, ignoring the improvement of population quality. This is actually putting the cart before the horse! From the experience of countries around the world, there are actually many ways to control population growth, and it is not necessary to adopt the current family planning policy, such as canceling the dual household registration system in urban and rural areas and promoting urbanization; Improve the education level of women, especially rural women; Expand the coverage of the social security system. These measures play a very important role in reducing the fertility rate. Instead of spending so much money and manpower to implement the current family planning policy, it is better to vigorously publicize the above aspects. Except for China, other countries in the world have managed to reduce their fertility rate significantly, such as Thailand and Sri Lanka, whose total fertility rate has dropped to 2.0. United Nations statistics show that the popularization of education, especially the improvement of female literacy rate and education level, will directly lead to the rapid decline of fertility rate.

There is a misunderstanding in family planning in China: the smaller the population, the better, and the lower the birth rate. Too much emphasis on "population control" will be led by the "having fewer children is everything" that goes deep into the bone marrow! Since 1980 "encouraging a couple to have only one child", under the pressure of high indicators, many places have reduced "advocating" to "having only one child". In some places, the family planning policy is strict and strict, and all levels "leave room" in the control index, which widens the distance from reality and leads to the phenomenon of forced orders in family planning work frequently. Too much emphasis on "population control", ignoring the old adage that "too much is too late" and seriously underestimating the rapid decline of forced fertility rate (from the policy point of view, that is, "one child") has great risks, leading to the deterioration of population structure: the sex ratio of the population is unbalanced and the aging is accelerated.

So, the smaller the population of a country, the higher the per capita income? At first glance, the smaller the population, the more natural resources (such as per capita mineral resources) there will be. However, the problem is that natural resources also need to be exploited by people before they can be transformed into wealth. In sparsely populated areas, although there are many natural resources per capita, the cost of turning them into wealth is very high. In areas with few resources but many people, relatively labor-intensive industries will develop and a large population will become an advantage. When the economy develops well, there will be funds. Therefore, as long as the economic policy is correct and the economy is developed according to the comparative advantage, a large population is not only a burden, but also an advantage. From the international experience, after the Second World War, only a few developing countries or regions, such as the Asian Four Little Dragons, really caught up with or greatly narrowed the gap with developed countries. The population density in these areas is very high, even much higher than that in Chinese mainland. The economic development level of Latin American countries is far less than that of the four little dragons in Asia. An important reason is that the population density of Latin American countries is too low. It is precisely those countries whose economic development is slow and unable to provide full employment opportunities that feel the population pressure. However, those countries and regions with rapid economic development can provide sufficient employment opportunities and successfully realize population urbanization. Even though the population density was high at first and the per capita resources were few, when the economy developed to a certain extent, they felt that the labor force was very scarce.

Therefore, the population problem is not a separate issue. The important thing is not to control the population, but to improve the quality of the population, that is, to improve the education level. Good basic education makes every citizen become a self-reliant labor force and can create value greater than his own consumption. This is the fundamental means to solve poverty. It is against social laws to control population by hard administrative means, which will inevitably lead to various consequences. What China needs now is to reduce the cost of education and improve the level of education, especially to popularize vocational high school education, instead of controlling the fertility rate. Education will turn a large number of people into valuable human resources, otherwise it will become a burden to the country. Educational mistakes will turn your baby into garbage!

Conclusion: There is no need for China to "control the population" by administrative means (especially the total fertility rate is far below the replacement level), and the main content of population policy should be "improving the quality of the population". Promoting urbanization, improving women's education level and expanding the coverage of social security system are all conducive to greatly reducing the fertility rate. More importantly, these measures not only have a positive effect on reducing the fertility rate and controlling the population, but also. As long as the quality of the population is improved, the level of economic development will also be improved accordingly. In this way, more employment opportunities will be created and the problem of overpopulation will be solved. Second, the improvement of the level of economic development will lead to the decline of the fertility rate, and the population growth will naturally be controlled.