China to overhaul 'threatening' one-child slogans

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Viv Marsh - BBC News


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China is to overhaul the sometimes threatening slogans used to enforce its one-child policy, the authorities have announced.

Details of the project were published in the Chinese communist party newspaper, the People's Daily.

State media blamed local officials for coming up with phrases such as, "If you don't get sterilised, your house will be demolished".

They said they would be replaced by friendlier expressions.

But they insisted that the one-child policy itself would not change.

The Chinese Communist Party has long appreciated the value of the concise, direct political slogan, but in matters of family planning, street banners and wall posters are frequently seen as lacking tactfulness and taste.

'Kill your family'

Research by China's National Population and Family Planning Commission, published in the People's Daily, concluded that a quarter of slogans posted in furtherance of its policies had been crude and harsh in the past. It described some as spine-chilling.

Among the examples it cited were, "Kill all your family if you don't follow the rule" and, "If you escape (sterilisation), we'll hunt you down; if you want to hang yourself, we'll give you the rope".

The research said milder expressions should be used to "avoid offending the public and stoking social tensions".

For the past three decades, most Chinese couples in urban areas have been limited to having a single child.

Implementing the law has been hugely controversial, and has frequently involved sterilisation and even forced termination.

The one-child policy has also been blamed for causing a gender imbalance, with families eager to have male children and selectively aborting girls.

The People's Daily said future propaganda would address this issue, and suggested the slogan: "Caring for the girl means caring for the future of the nation."

Upbeat slogans were also mooted to prevent birth defects. The paper said one new slogan would be: "Please get rid of the alcohol and cigarettes before you plan to be a father".

[Acid Trip]

And people want us to be more like China.

[Arkady Renko]

too little, too late. It seems that china has aptly fucked up the future of their economic and social development with their relentless enforcement of the one child rule. twenty to thrity years from now they'll be stuck with a dramatically aged population and an enormous overhead of retired people because their birth rate has been close to one per 1 child per woman for decades. And unlike Japan or many european countries, they don't have a large bade of private wealth that may buffer an overstreteched public pension system.

[Southern Belle]

What a place to have to live.

[Acid Trip]

too little, too late. It seems that china has aptly fucked up the future of their economic and social development with their relentless enforcement of the one child rule. twenty to thrity years from now they'll be stuck with a dramatically aged population and an enormous overhead of retired people because their birth rate has been close to one per 1 child per woman for decades. And unlike Japan or many european countries, they don't have a large bade of private wealth that may buffer an overstreteched public pension system.

And therein lies the 2nd great flaw of socialism and things like public pension systems. You must always have more people paying in than taking out. That means unless your population constantly grows you will eventually run out of money.

If populations continually grow we'll eventually die of famine/disease/war due to a lack of resources.

[Southern Belle]

And therein lies the 2nd great flaw of socialism and things like public pension systems. You must always have more people paying in than taking out. That means unless your population constantly grows you will eventually run out of money.

If populations continually grow we'll eventually die of famine/disease/war due to a lack of resources.

The people who enforce these things aren't looking to the distant future. They only want to guarantee that they and their families will be able to live in the lap of luxury on the backs of the people they control.

[Acid Trip]

The people who enforce these things aren't looking to the distant future. They only want to guarantee that they and their families will be able to live in the lap of luxury on the backs of the people they control.

:+1: Exactly.

[Arkady Renko]

And therein lies the 2nd great flaw of socialism and things like public pension systems. You must always have more people paying in than taking out. That means unless your population constantly grows you will eventually run out of money.

I don't oppose a public pension system per se as long as it's based on a capital accumulation principle. the hand-in-mouth-systems many european countries employ are fucked up though, they can only work based on a high birth rate coupled with considerable economic growth. And since the seventies most of the countries concerned have only had either one, but not both.


If populations continually grow we'll eventually die of famine/disease/war due to a lack of resources.

particularly countries like china and india will find ways of disposing of spare citizens. Remember soilent green?