Chapter 496: Baby Boom

If so much grain were to be placed in Western countries, it would have been so surplus that it would cause an economic crisis, and then it would either be plowed directly into the soil or burned as coal, and even many farmers would go bankrupt because the price of food was too low. But in China www.biquge.info there is no need to worry about it, no matter how much grain is harvested, the state will buy it at a fixed price, anyway, China has frequent disasters and the world is not peaceful, so it is not too much to leave two or three years of grain stockpile.

More importantly, the living standards of the Chinese people are rapidly improving, the demand for animal food is increasing, which requires much more feed than rations, and the growth rate of the Chinese population is also alarming, and the serious food surplus will only be a temporary problem.

Since the establishment of the Chinese Republic, the Chinese population has been growing rapidly, and after the victory of the Three Kingdoms War, it reached an unprecedented peak, starting from 1909, for several consecutive years, the natural growth rate of the Chinese population has exceeded 3% every year, and more than 2.5% has lasted for more than 20 years, which is called "baby boom" by later generations. Such a long period of rapid population growth was unmatched in the first 30 years of China's history, which was said to advocate "strength in numbers". This surprised Li Hui for a while, because he did not specifically encourage population growth, but it is not difficult to understand the reason for the careful comparison of the differences between the two periods......

If China in this time and space is only compared to food and clothing, even China in the early 21st century is not comparable to China in history (in 1910, the per capita grain possession of Chinese had exceeded 800 kilograms, which was more than double the level in the early 21st century). Not only is it enough for the Chinese people not to worry about not having enough to eat, but also the supply of animal protein, especially high-quality animal protein, is also sufficient, so that the national fitness movement vigorously promoted by the state has produced far more significant results than later generations, and Momen, who manages everything, even with its strong organizational and mobilization power, has made the "National Nutrition Regulations" that later generations have been unable to promulgate and implement more than 100 years in advance, making the physical fitness of the Chinese almost continuously enhanced at a speed visible to the naked eye. Just look at the average height of teenagers in China today to see how significant the effect is.

In 1910, the average height of 18-year-old men in China had reached 1.73 meters, 11 centimeters higher than the statistics of the first national census, and also exceeded the average height of teenagers of the same age in most countries in the world. The average height (or 18-year-old male) even exceeds 1.77 meters, which is unparalleled even in the world, and the trend of increasing height seems to be completely unstoppable......

And what is even more rare is that due to sufficient physical exercise, they are not just empty height, such as strength, bounce, flexibility and other basic physical qualities are also generally not bad, later generations of those who hold ethnological views, that Chinese and even yellow people are not as good as those Caucasian guys if they see this, they will be stunned, because now the physical fitness of Western Caucasian people is being rapidly surpassed by the Chinese, and the reason is actually very simple, nothing more than nutrition and exercise.

Even Li Hui admits that the talented blacks are far less awesome than the future generations, not only because of Western racial discrimination and their lack of opportunity to participate in large-scale international games, but also because black people live very hard everywhere now, they can't eat enough, where do they get good health? Without the opportunity to get ahead by playing professional sports, there would be no way to spend money on a large family in Africa and America, as was the case in later generations, and blacks would not have had the opportunity to display their extraordinary talents......

Li Hui knows this, but he has no intention of reaching out to pull the black brothers, China may now be because it has regained the pride of the former "Celestial Empire" after becoming stronger, domestic isolationism is prevalent, and the games and everything are started in their own country, and the little brothers who pull up the Asian League are even interested in inviting those Western countries with a similar level of civilization, let alone those black people who don't even have their own country?

Therefore, the average physique of Chinese people now is undoubtedly far greater than when they could not even eat enough in the fifties and sixties in history, and under the premise of similar other conditions, the stronger the body, the stronger the reproductive ability.

In addition, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Hui focused on promoting industrialization because of the urgency of time, but did not pay enough attention to the people's cultural and entertainment activities, and the strict gambling ban laws and regulations turned this most convenient way of entertainment into a flood of beasts, everyone heard of the color change, ball games are fun, but even if you have that physical strength, you will get tired of playing all the time, right? As a result, men and women who have had enough to eat and have nothing to do are often resorted to the most primitive means of entertainment, and then inevitably produce a large number of by-products - children......

The body is particularly capable of giving birth, and there is enough time to give birth, and now China has not begun to produce contraceptives, this fertility rate is difficult to think of, this rare "baby boom" in human history is somewhat unexpected, but in fact, it is still reasonable.

Historically, extremely high fertility rates have not necessarily represented high population growth in many cases, and mortality rates have been the most decisive factor.

Although the current medical and health conditions in China are not as good as those of later generations, at least key antibiotics such as penicillin have been invented and promoted, and like education, medicine is completely free to ensure that every citizen can afford to use it (the influence of the rich and the poor is still there, but it is mainly reflected in those chronic diseases). In addition, although China's current total industrial volume has been considerable, it is only a fraction compared with later generations, and the output of chemical fertilizers and pesticides is far from increasing to the extent that it can be overapplied, and Li Hui has always attached great importance to environmental protection, so the environmental pollution is much smaller than that of later generations, which undoubtedly makes up for the gap in the level of medical technology to a large extent, and makes the average life expectancy of citizens of the Republic of China increase rapidly.

As for the infantile mortality rate, which was terrifyingly high in the pre-Qing Dynasty and can be said to be the most serious factor that dragged down life expectancy, it has long been reduced to an almost negligible level......