Despite fewer Chinese babies, there’s evidence that firms with premium branding and international cachet can still grow their market share — and charge more for their products.
In a blow to President Xi Jinping’s campaign to promote a fertility-friendly society, the population fell by 3.4 million last year, the largest drop in decades.
China expects survey to provide basis to monitor population developmental changes & for the govt and Communist Party to formulate economic, social development and population-related policies.
In China, fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilisation and egg freezing are banned for unmarried women. Last year, it was 6.77 births per 1,000 people.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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