Relevant data show that in recent years, the number of births in China has been declining. At the end of 20021,the national population was141300 million, of which10.62 million were born and10/40,000 died, with a net increase of 480,000 people and a natural growth rate of 0.34‰. Experts predict that the net population growth may be negative in 2022, and the population of China will enter an era of "negative growth". It can be seen that the fertility rate in China has reached the point of "burning eyebrows".
Even so, the solution proposed by experts is only "treating the symptoms rather than the root cause". For a long time, families in China have devoted a lot of energy and money to their children. Parents always focus on "learning" for their children's future. You can't fall in love before you are a minor, and you can't get married because of unstable work. Some experts believe that the pressure of involution in education is too great, which leads parents to spend too much on education and children can't be distracted, thus reducing the fertility rate. But education is not the solution to the fertility problem at all.
In fact, the key to improving the fertility rate lies not only in "fertility" but also in "education". It is a small problem for young people to have children, but it is a big problem to raise children. It has become the norm for young people to work overtime in the workplace. High housing prices and high consumption still make people breathless, and the contradiction between "who will raise" and "how to raise" when a child is born is even more difficult to solve. Faced with the incalculable cost of child care, young people will naturally choose to "seek advantages and avoid disadvantages." Some netizens said, "I don't want my children to inherit this involution, toil and panic."
The problem of educational pressure is often caused by the uneven distribution of social resources. At present, parents' "prestigious school complex" has long been commonplace. Entering a prestigious school seems to mean a bright future, while entering an ordinary school means that children "lose at the starting line". For this reason, parents would rather spend a lot of money than cultivate a "gold-swallowing beast". If educational resources were allocated reasonably, there would not be so many teaching and training institutions. Therefore, only shortening the education time without focusing on the problems existing in the allocation of basic education resources can not alleviate the pressure brought by education, and the purpose of promoting fertility in this way can not be achieved.
In addition, education is the fundamental plan of the country, and China's strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education also clearly puts forward that "education is the foundation". If the education time is shortened, on the one hand, it is difficult to ensure the effect and quality of education, and it is easy to affect the improvement of national quality; On the other hand, it will also affect the development and progress of science and technology, which is not conducive to the improvement of China's international competitiveness. It can be seen that the suggestion of trying to improve the fertility rate by shortening the time of education can only be said to be a short-sighted and naive idea. This suggestion also ignores the advantages of the current education system to a certain extent, such as conforming to children's physical and mental development and cognitive laws, and conforming to China's current social and economic development.
To solve the fertility problem, it is more important to treat the symptoms, not to "stop the boiling". In the face of young people's lack of expectation for the future and confidence in childbirth, relevant state departments should take encouraging measures. We can't just start with education, let alone shorten the education time, but we should "uproot" the problem and establish and improve the guarantee mechanism from two aspects: "health" and "education". In addition, as an expert, we must not sell ourselves short, but also go deep into the masses and make targeted suggestions.
As one of the "three new mountains", education does have room for improvement. In the future, we should reform the education system, teach students in accordance with their aptitude and reduce involution and unfairness in education. This is the way to really pay attention to the voice of the masses and the feasible policy to encourage fertility.