Chapter 222, low desire to procreate

"Brother Fu, we have thoroughly understood all the technologies in this alien base, and most of the technologies have already been mastered by us, that is, the technical aspects of the plasma engine have allowed us to gain something, followed by their computer technology, because the language of the Lorne civilization is similar to the ideograms of our Chinese, so it is a great inspiration for our Chinese programming in terms of programming."

At this time, almost 2 months have passed since the discovery of Ceres' alien civilization base, and during this time, the scientists on the "Ocean Ocean" have analyzed the entire base inside and out, and everything has been carefully studied.

"It seems that it's almost time to return to Earth, and there is not much energy left on the spaceship."

After listening to Chen Bin's words, Li Fu nodded, in fact, for Li Fu, there is no technology worth learning in this alien base at all, and there are countless advanced technologies in the seeds of civilization that have not yet been learned.

"Haha, Li Fu, this time it was really not in vain, the harvest is huge."

At this time, Li Fu's teachers Liu Yi and Liu Shiying floated over, and their voices were very loud.

This time, he followed the "Ocean" spacecraft out to investigate, not only discovered extraterrestrial life on Mars, but also had aliens and many kinds of alien plants here in Ceres for him to study.

"The life on Lorne is almost the same as the life on our earth, all carbon-based life, and they are also double helix genes, Lorne people are also slowly evolved from living things, their ancestors are almost the same as our earthlings, and they are evolved from an ape-like animal on Lorne."

"It's no wonder that their appearance actually has a lot of similarities with us earthlings, with flat noses, pointed ears, and blue skin, and their ancestors should have lived in very dense primeval forests."

Liu Yi happily talked about his research results, Scat ~ Yong's corpse was made into specimens, and some of the plants on Lorne Star that he brought over were also carefully protected by scientists, which are plants from 8.6 light years away, which are very precious.

"You're laughing, I'm full of worries now, the technological level of the Lorne civilization 50 years ago has almost reached our current level, 50 years have passed, I don't know how far it has developed, if we invade our solar system in the future, I don't know if we can live in a low grade."

Liu Shiying didn't laugh at all, he carefully studied all the technology in this alien base, and after scientific and rigorous analysis with scientists on this side of the earth, he believed that the technology of the earth and the technological level of the Lorne civilization were a full 50 years apart, so the whole person was very worried now.

"The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and we are worried that we will not be able to solve the problem, so we should work harder on science and technology."

"Lao Liu, teacher, do you think we can almost go back to Earth?"

Li Fu smiled a little helplessly, and then discussed with Liu Shiying and Liu Yi about returning to Earth.

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On the other hand, the earth in China, because of the decision at the highest meeting, so the official side of the Chinese began to release the wind, encourage childbirth, improve the quality of the population, and vigorously develop science and technology, these three are the basic policies that will dominate the stars in the future through the news media, the virtual world and other channels began to be announced.

"Many children, many blessings!"

"Four generations in the same house, five generations in the same house, family fun."

"The disadvantages and dangers of being an only child, and so on."

All kinds of propaganda content began to appear in the field of vision of the Chinese people at once, in the past, it was all about having fewer children and only one child, but now it is the other way around, and the official has begun to encourage childbearing.

Of course, the real policy has not yet come down, and now it is just a matter of blowing the wind and seeing the reaction of the people in China, which is also the practice of the Chinese government, and nothing will be implemented immediately, after all, this is a matter related to the great cause of the Chinese nation, not child's play.

However, contrary to everyone's expectations, it was originally unexpected that the Chinese people would actively respond to the call of the country, but the real situation was that there were few reactions, and the people's desire to have children was very low.

"In the past, we forced family planning, and now we have begun to encourage rabbits to have more children, is it because we found that there are too few rabbits, not enough to eat, so I am kind and start to let us have children, I will not be fooled, I will only give birth to one at most, and I am not even ready to have children."

"That is, only one is good, the country will provide for the elderly, only one is good, the state will help the elderly, and then the pension cannot rely on the state, it is good to postpone retirement and provide for the elderly yourself, who still believes it, it is better for the rabbit to die than to regenerate."

"Four generations in the same house? Five generations in the same house? I really think too much, living in China, it's okay to live to 60, I got married at the age of 30, I only had a son at the age of 31, and it would be nice to be able to see my grandson when I die. ”

Among the various forums, topics like this are very popular, and have been supported by many people, for the things that are now advocating and encouraging fertility, the rabbits basically have no reaction, and they have said that they can't afford to give birth, can't afford to raise, and the desire to have children is very low.

This is the same as the development of the second child, the number of newborns in the whole country has not increased explosively as experts expected, but the number of newborns has decreased by more than 200,000 a year.

Now I want to change everyone's thinking all of a sudden, this difficulty is similar to when I first publicized family planning, it is very difficult, it takes time, of course, more importantly, although everyone's living standard is now higher than at the beginning, I don't know how much, but the pressure of life is still very great, but there is no need to worry about food and clothing, and then houses, cars, education, and medical care are still heavy mountains.

At the beginning of January 2025, the "Ocean Ocean" spacecraft finally returned to Earth after more than 2 years of scientific investigation, and when Li Fu stepped on the land of the earth, the whole person couldn't help but breathe a few breaths of air, but as soon as Li Fu returned to the earth, he was immediately called to the imperial capital by Tang Yunshan.

In the center of the imperial capital of China, in a quiet courtyard, Tang Yunshan is very rare to be idle, drinking tea with Li Fu, chatting and talking about some views on the future.

"I don't know what young people think now, they don't want to have children, last year there were hundreds of thousands of new newborns in our country, and the proportion of elderly people over 60 years old in our country has reached nearly 1/3, which is really worrying."

In the past, Tang Yunshan did not attach great importance to the population, but since he proposed to encourage childbirth, he attached great importance to this area, and after careful study, he found a problem, the population of China is about to have a huge problem.

The number of newborns is decreasing every year, and the aging population is becoming more and more serious, and the speed is very fast, but the corresponding equipment security, medical care and so on cannot keep up.

So at this time, Tang Yunshan seemed worried, and he was very helpless about the situation in front of him, even if he had mastered the greatest power in the country, he still couldn't change the situation in front of him.

"Old Tang, don't you really know why young people don't want to give birth?"

Li Fu nodded slightly after listening, Li Fu knew from the seeds of civilization that in the interstellar universe era, every civilization attaches great importance to population growth, because only more people can occupy more resources and planets.

"Please advise."

Tang Yunshan was sitting up and asked for advice very seriously.

"I think there are two reasons why young people are reluctant to have children, on the one hand, because of the long-term family planning propaganda, so everyone thinks that it is good to have only one, and the other very important reason is because everyone's life is very stressful now, and the cost of raising a child is too high, so they are not willing to have children, even if they are allowed to give birth, everyone will not give birth."

Li Fu thought about it and said his thoughts, the low fertility rate is a problem that almost every developed country will encounter, of course, the current fertility rate in China is lower than that of the foot basin chicken and the southern stick, and it is even lower than that of European and American countries, and it has reached a very dangerous edge, and the population collapse is very likely to happen.

"I can understand the first reason, the second life is stressful, I think everyone's living standard is better than before, I don't know how much, even in rural areas, everyone has a house and a car, and the pressure on life is really great?"

Tang Yunshan thought about it and said with some puzzlement.

"Of course, the pressure of life is very great, although our country's economic development is very good in recent years, but the big problems existing in our country have not been solved, if the problems of medical care, pension, education, and housing are not fundamentally solved, and the other is that the three aspects of social fairness, justice, and openness have not been improved. I think everyone's desire to have children will gradually increase. ”

Li Fu pondered for a while, constantly sorting out the language in his mind, Tang Yunshan himself was born in a big family, and he had a superior life since he was a child, of course he would not understand some of the difficulties faced by ordinary people, he only knew that the living standards of ordinary people were much higher than before, but he did not know the real problems faced by ordinary people.

PS: The above is just a family's words, let's take a look.