China Vows to Half Growing Gender Imbalance

Faraj Aldossary
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In the article ”China vows to half growing gender imbalance” by Xinhua General News Service, the author discusses growing gender imbalance. The author state that Chinese authorities have made measures and serious punishments to control two big problems affecting gender ratio imbalance; fetus gender testing and sex-selective abortions. The author says that the authorities pledged to protect girls from ill treatment that may reach killing. Then, he views that the authorities have made a statement containing those measures that will be reached nationwide. After that, the author shows some statistics to support his opinion. Moreover, the author states that the authorities have offered incentives to encourage families to have girls. Next, he states that the authorities made a policy to prevent the rising population and sex ratio imbalance. Then, the author states that the authorities are strict to apply laws, especially government officials. Finally, the author mentions that the authorities encourage enterprises support government programs of sex ratio imbalance and population. Therefore, Chinese authorities should make severe procedures to protect human rights, to make balance of gender, and to control their population
Chinese authorities should offer stimulus to families who have only a girl and make punishments for people who discard girls.

First, Chinese people were violating human rights when they were killing girls. They were murdering fetuses if they were female. For example, when a woman get pregnant they make gender testing; if the fetus was a boy they would keep him, but if it was female they would abort her. Also, they were thinking that only boys could help their parents to face life’s troubles, while girls couldn’t do anything useful, so Chinese people thought that girls just added an imposition. For example, parents depend on boys to share their own work more than girls even simple chores. Therefore, the authorities should try to make Chinese people avoid violation of the human rights.

Second, Chinese authorities made some policies to control their population. Each family is allowed to have just one child. These procedures made the people trying to have a boy rather than a girl. This behavior made sex ratio imbalance. Sex-selective abortions were spread among them. For example, they made fetus gender testing; if it was a girl they aborted her just because she was not a boy. Also, that behavior will put them in a big problem; they will reach a stage without enough women to be wives or mothers. For example, the natural average of any country is the number of men almost equals the number of women, but in China men are more than women, so they are barely able to find women to be wives. Therefore, the authorities had to control this problem before it is uncontrolled.

Third, China has a high population. Chinese authorities should make strict policies to curtail its population. China’s population has a large number, so if they have freedom to have children as they want, they will make a larger population. For example, if a couple has four children, that will be enough to double the population. Also, the high population will come with many serious economic, social, and security problems. For example, people can’t find functions or work to get food. Therefore, Chinese authorities should control this population problem as soon as they can.

In conclusion, Chinese authorities made policies to control population, but they don’t consider other sides. Then they get new problems such as gender imbalance. However, Chinese authorities have to solve population problem and save girls’ lives. China’s problem will affect a whole world because China has a largest population around the world.

Reference
Xinhua General News Service (2007). China vows to half growing gender imbalance. Retried Aug 02, 2007 from
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