Chinese Gendercide

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As human move further into the 21st century, the serious imbalance in sex ratio at birth is becoming obsolete. The preferences of son resulting from the economic benefits and social value is whispered in many Asian country.( Narayan Das 1987 pp.157) “Women are missing in their millions—aborted, killed, neglected to death. In 1990 an Indian economist, Amartya Sen, put the number at 100m” (Alamy, 2010) Argubly, this issue is becoming an obstacle for the world. This article will focus on this socioeconomic phenomenon with the view of economic. Generally, this article will process into two parts: first the introduction of the situation and its effects, second, the possible solutions for the problem.

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According to Junsen Zhang, “The People's Republic of China (China, hereafter) is faced with a severe population problem, as are many other Third World countries. ” (J. Zhang 1990 pp:105) A report from China Daily states, at present, there are 37 million surpluses of males, of which, 18 million surpluses between the age of 0- 15. (China Daily 2007) According to the data from the National Statistics Bureau, the sex ratio at birth over years is showed below: the gap in increasing over years

Source: “The Third Population Census in 1982” “The Fourth Population Census in 1900” “The Fifth Population Census in 2000” “1% Sampling population research in 1987 and 1995”

Christophe Guilmoto and Hesketh, the professors of LSE, point out an even worse phenomenon that the mortality of girl infants against boy increased from 0.95 to 1.46 between 1982 and 2000. (C. Guilmoto and Hesketh, 2008) Over all, the relative low birth rate and high mortality rate led a serious sex unbalance in China. The map in below shows the geographic sex ratio o...

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Chongqing Daily(2008) “the sex ratio in Russia is the most unbalanced all over the world” Chongqing Daily. Accessed on 17th may 2010 at http://news.qq.com/a/20080928/000225.htm

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