By 2013, Chinese authorities had begun to come around to his views.
As parlous as China’s situation appears in the official statistics, Yi said things are actually worse.
They also acknowledged that the fertility rate had fallen to 1.0, far below the replacement level of 2.1.
Yi argues that China’s population is 1.28 billion, instead of the 1.41 billion the government claims.
“China’s decline will be gradual,” Yi wrote in yet another commentary.
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