Chinese women speak out on Weibo against Beijing’s ‘three-child-policy’
2 min readChinese women have taken to social media platform Weibo to voice their grievances against the Chinese government for “ using womanly bodies” to advance population control measures, warranting that the womanly body has wax a “ tool” for the government, reported news agency ANI on Monday.
China did out with the impactful‘one- child- policy’in 2015 and replaced it with the‘two- child- policy’, which was either replaced with the controversial‘three- child- policy’in 2021, after tale data showed China’s population growth slipping to its slowest rate since the 1950s. The ruling Communist Party of China heralded the 2021 relaxation as a major landmark but women were conservative it would only complicate the living inequalities.
Chinese citizens took to Weibo a day after this policy change was heralded on May 31, complaining of rising education expenditures, long work hours, lack of access to proper child care services, and sky high real estate prices. The Chinese government promised to help families with child care and education costs but so far little has been done in this regard.
Our government is really good at empty talk,” Lu Pin, a Chinese feminist activist told the New York Times after the three child policy was released, adding that “ It’s empty to just look at a many effects they said.”
The Chinese President Xi Jinping has notwithstanding tried to make good of his party’s pledge by dealing a deathly blow to the Chinese online instruction assiduousness by charging a ban on for- profit instruction, in a essay to reduce education cost for parents who spend their last penny into getting their children ready for considerably competitive Chinese universities.
CCP has also initiated bans on online gaming and limited the volume of time children can spend playing videotape games to three hours, and banned online celebrity sucker clubs. All these moves, critics remark, belong to the‘Xi Jinping seminary of study’which aims to put stricter control on Chinese social life.a
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