"Biologist Hongmei Wang, who was born 52 years ago in the autonomous Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, is confronting a gigantic problem, equipped only with the humble weapon of scientific investigation. The researcher at the State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology Laboratory in Beijing works on understanding the first stages of human development, a subject that has become crucial in a country immersed in the worst demographic crisis on the planet."
"Aging populations and low birth rates threaten to collapse public health systems due to shrinking workforces and the growing costs of caring for citizens that are growing older and sicker. In China, the problem has reached monstrous proportions. For several years, the most inhabited country in the world has been losing its population. Despite the government's new policies to raise birth rates, residents have been hesitant to have more children."
Biologist Hongmei Wang, born in Inner Mongolia in 1973, researches the first stages of human development at the State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology in Beijing. China faces a severe demographic crisis with falling birth rates and an aging population that threatens public health systems through shrinking workforces and rising care costs. The country’s population has begun to decline despite policy changes permitting two children in 2015 and three in 2021. If current trends continue, the United Nations warns the population could be halved by the end of the century. The one-child policy, introduced in 1979 by Deng Xiaoping and devised by Song Jian, contributed to the current demographic imbalance.
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