It's not so much the social public care system, but its precursor plan - the use of artificial womb technology to breed human babies in large quantities to achieve a population growth rate of 5% per year. In fact, many people have been informed of this bill in advance and discussed it for a while, but the various controversies are still very big.

Zhang Yuan pressed everyone and slowly spoke: "Everyone, according to our population report, how many people were born last year?" Accurate figures, 1,823, 3.6 per 1,000 births. The birth rate is very low, outrageously low! Indeed, our population structure is still very young, the mortality rate is zero, coupled with the low quality of life and the poor objective environment, it is nothing to have children in a few years. ”

"But, think about it, what will happen in fifty years?"

"Fifty years from now, our average age will rise by 50 years, and all of you here will be 80 or even 90 years old, how many young people will there be? 100,000! ”

"Yes, at a growth rate of 3.6 per thousand, fifty years later, there will be only 100,000 young people! The total population is only 600,000, and it is on the basis of zero mortality. ”

"Fifty years!"

It seems that there is a sense of crisis that explodes in the hearts of many people.

The current development model is inevitably unsustainable.

"Your Excellency Zhang Yuan, we can adopt a way to encourage childbirth, instead of radically using artificial babies......"

The female congressman in the audience immediately stood up and said excitedly: "The impact on our society is too great...... It's unimaginable! Have you considered reality? ”

"Yes, I can't wait a few years, and there are more artificial babies than natural people, so what's the matter?"

"I'm against it!"

The voices of various arguments are getting louder and louder, and the voices of opposition are emerging one after another.

Zhang Yuan raised his hand and suppressed all the voices.

He said loudly: "Seat 145, Congressman Qian Lihua, as an electrical engineer, do you discriminate against these babies born from artificial wombs?" Or, do you think they're not normal humans? ”

All eyes looked at him, and this Mr. Qian's face turned pale, and he hurriedly said, "There is no discrimination." ”

"So, if there is no discrimination, there are more artificial babies than natural people, what's the problem?"

"......" This gentleman's face was red and white for a while, and if he put on the big hat of "discrimination", his political career would come to an end directly. It took him a long time before he spoke, "Is there a problem...... I do not know. ”

Zhang Yuan asked another lady who wanted to vote against before, and her eyes were like lightning: "Ms. Zhong of the Ministry of Education, if a baby is born without a father or mother, let you raise it carefully." Can you make him neither humble nor arrogant, not arrogant or impatient, form an independent and optimistic personality, and become a useful person to society? ”

The lady Zhong hesitated and said, "But ......"

Zhang Yuan ignored her next sentence of "but", and then asked: "I just ask, can he be neither humble nor arrogant, not arrogant or impetuous, form an independent and optimistic personality, and become a useful person to society?" Yes or no! ”

“…… OK. ”

"Do you think this kind of upbringing can be scaled up on a large scale? In other words, can a large number of fatherless and motherless babies become useful people to society? ”

Ms. Chung did not reply.

"Since one person can, a group of people should also be okay."

Zhang Yuan came to a conclusion on his own, then turned his head and asked again: "So...... Minister Ding of the Ministry of Human Resources, if we adopt a policy of actively encouraging childbirth, what can our natural population birth rate reach? ”

The gray-haired Minister Ding quickly replied: "The maximum can reach 2%-3%, but it cannot last for a long time, and it will eventually fall sharply." First, according to statistics, a couple has the highest willingness to have one or two, and the number of people who want to have three is very low, and more than four is almost zero. Therefore, it is impossible to achieve a 5% birth rate by relying on natural growth alone, and our population is not a backward population, but a high-quality population. ”

"The second point is that there is a fault line in our population, and almost all of the ages are concentrated around 30 years old...... No one wants to have one at the age of 30, one at the age of 40, and one at the age of 50 or 60. Demographic faults will undoubtedly produce undesirable social phenomena for a civilization. ”

"Moreover, the introduction of policies to encourage childbirth will consume a lot of social costs and hinder the development of the rest of the industry. According to our statistics, the social cost of raising an infant and toddler individually will be 3 or even 4 times that of group rearing......"

"In other words, the cost of raising one child alone can make it ...... for three or four children to raise a group."

There was silence again for a few minutes in the room.

Zhang Yuan turned around: "Minister Li of the Ministry of Resources, how long can our advanced equipment last?" ”

Minister Li stood up and replied, "Many of our robots were brought from the earth. Advanced equipment with high precision, once started, the rate of depreciation is very fast, and some equipment, 10 years will not work...... Otherwise, 30 years, 50 years at most. ”

"If our industrial machine is broken, it is really broken, and it is extremely difficult to repair. If, at that time, something brought from the earth is damaged, and we do not yet have the ability to build an industrial machine of the same specification, then ......"

Minister Li's face was not so good-looking: "Science and technology...... Will go backwards! ”

The conference room suddenly became very quiet.

This year, the entire civilization has made great achievements, but the vast majority of them are just eating the old books. Many people didn't expect that time was so short.

After a while, one of the people sitting at the bottom frowned, and plucked up the courage to ask.

"But, sir, isn't it too much to have twenty or thirty thousand children a year...... Can our whole society be raised? ”

Zhang Yuan said coldly: "This gentleman, I remind you to take a long-term view, 1,800 babies will be born this year, and there will only be 1,800 more workers in 20 years." 30,000 babies will be born this year, and 30,000 more workers will be born in 20 years...... We must not only live in the present, but also live in the future, and today's hard work is for tomorrow's sustainability. ”

"Any other comments?"

"No ......" seemed to be suppressed by Zhang Yuan's momentum, and the gentleman quickly sat back.

The woman, surnamed Zhong, stood up again and retorted: "Babies need a lot of nutrients to grow, especially when there is no breast milk, they need milk powder, and more complementary foods. ”

"Mr. Zhang Yuan, have you ever calculated that with our current productivity, adding so many babies will invisibly raise prices and reduce people's quality of life. Our economic structure and even the structure of production need to be readjusted drastically. ”

"This lady, you are right, it is true...... We are not productive enough. ”

Zhang Yuan said expressionlessly, "But...... Is the reason for your objection that the quality of life will be reduced as a result? We've traveled 20 light years, just to enjoy life? People who think this way should have stayed on Earth in the first place, not come here! ”

The lady blushed and stood there in a daze.

Syllable!

Zhang Yuan slapped the table heavily and roared loudly: "Then ......"

"Since no one discriminates against these children, education is not a problem, and no one wants to have more than 10 children for civilization, population has become the biggest constraint on development......

"I'll ask you why you oppose this bill! Why?! Do you want the entire civilization to be extinct here, in a hundred years?! ”

As if stunned by Zhang Yuan's roar, for a while, no one dared to stand up and make trouble.

Perhaps, many people recall that this usually polite, gentle and elegant Dr. Zhang and Minister Zhang were a fierce man who dared to cut off his legs, and a fighter who defeated a super life form alone!