For decades, we’ve read about China’s one-child policy, and the often traumatic impact it has had on the country’s citizens. Of the forced sterilisations, and babies abandoned in orphanages.

But now, decades after that policy was first put into place, China is battling a different problem. Namely, a fertility collapse that has led to a drastic decline in the economy and  innovation. And now the challenge is to convince its citizens to have more babies.

Today, North Asia correspondent, Eryk Bagshaw, on the Chinese CEO who’s paying his employees to have a baby. And how a collapse in China’s fertility might impact the rest of us.

For decades, we’ve read about China’s one-child policy, and the often traumatic impact it has had on the country’s citizens. Of the forced sterilisations, and babies abandoned in orphanages.
But now, decades after that policy was first put into place, China is battling a different problem. Namely, a fertility collapse that has led to a drastic decline in the economy and  innovation. And now the challenge is to convince its citizens to have more babies.
Today, North Asia correspondent, Eryk Bagshaw, on the Chinese CEO who’s paying his employees to have a baby. And how a collapse in China’s fertility might impact the rest of us.

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The Morning Edition brings you the story behind the story with the best journalists in Australia. Join host Samantha Selinger-Morris from the newsrooms of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, weekdays from 5am.

The Morning Edition brings you the story behind the story with the best journalists in Australia. Join host Samantha Selinger-Morris from the newsrooms of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, weekdays from 5am.

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