Reading: China and immigration

1) What is the argument made in this article?

Last month China’s reign came to an end. India has overtaken it as the world’s most populous country. The most important is China’s working-age population has been shrinking for a decade. Its population as a whole declined last year—and it is ageing rapidly. This is likely to hinder economic growth and create an enormous burden of care.

Yet when officials in Beijing mull solutions, one seems largely absent from the discussion: immigration. China has astonishingly few foreign-born residents. Of its 1.4bn people, around 1m, or just 0.1%, are immigrants. Over 80% of manufacturers faced labour shortages in 2022, according to one survey. Nearly half of China’s 400m blue-collar workers are aged over 40, reported a study in December. That is in line with an official estimate that China will have trouble filling nearly 30m manufacturing jobs by 2025. 

The simple truth is that China has no interest in becoming an immigrant melting pot. Part of this may be explained by foreign bullying of the country in the past. But opposition to multiculturalism is also fuelled by claims of Chinese racial purity long peddled by nationalists. 

2) Do you agree with this?

I agree with the view expressed in the article that China needs a population but will not accept large numbers of immigrants. First of all, from the practice of many foreign countries, the large-scale introduction of immigrants has endless consequences. Immigrants, with very different cultural backgrounds, ethnic personalities, and religious beliefs, can lead to all kinds of conflicts after their introduction, which can cause endless social problems.

Secondly, in the history of China, the two most famous heydays, one in the Han Dynasty and the other in the Tang Dynasty introduced immigrants, but later both had serious disasters caused by immigration, the most serious one being the Han Dynasty, which almost led to the extinction of the Chinese nation.

These two histories, both in the heyday, in order to solve the population problem and the introduction of large-scale immigration, the surface seems to have solved part of the problem, but in the end, both brewed a tragic historical tragedy, resulting in short decades, long more than two hundred years of war, the result is not only the population problem is not solved, but also in the war and chaos led to a massive decline in population.

China has endured too much historical past, and people deep down are afraid and resist. So I think that the government still will find a way to solve the population problem from within.

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