The Russian government has invested heavily in encouraging fertility to actively respond to the population crisis

In response to the deteriorating population crisis, the Russian government once again announced the adjustment of the population policy, spending huge sums to encourage fertility.

In response to the deteriorating population crisis, the Russian government once again announced the adjustment of the population policy, spending huge sums to encourage fertility.

According to foreign media reports, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets announced in Moscow on Wednesday that in the next three years, the government will spend 500 billion rubles (about 56.4 billion yuan) to encourage Russian families to live. Children, including credit subsidies and financial support for new families.

The country’s finance minister, Anton Siluanov, said the money would come from the government’s reserves and there is no need to adjust the budget.

On the day before, Putin said in a meeting with government officials that Russia must take more measures to support new parents and create more “motivation to encourage the birth of second and third children” in response to the upcoming population. crisis.

“We must encourage a package of measures to stabilize the population and prevent the population from continuing to decline over the next decade,” Putin said at the National Coordinating Committee for Strategic Action for Children’s Rights. “We must realign our population policy.”

The latest policy to deal with the population crisis includes starting monthly subsidies for the first-born poor families starting in January next year for a total of 18 months. In the next three years, the project will cost 144 billion rubles.

Putin also said that the mother fund policy, which should expire next year, will be extended to 2021. The policy provides a one-time subsidy of 453,000 rubles (about 51,000 yuan) to mothers who give birth to the second and third or even more children.

He also proposed to provide special loan collateral schemes for second- and multi-child families starting next year, and provide state subsidies for these households with a 6% annual interest rate. Currently, the country's mortgage interest rate averages around 10.5%. Putin said the plan is expected to benefit 500,000 families in the next five years.

Russia announced this welfare policy before the 2018 election. Although Putin has not announced his re-election, it is almost certain that he will compete for the president again in March next year and continue to take control of Russia in the next six years.

Western media believe that Putin’s move is to prepare for next year’s campaign and question whether this approach can solve the country’s population problems in the long run. The Free European Radio, funded by the US Congress, quoted a population expert as saying that subsidizing families may increase the birth rate over time, but it will not reverse the long-term decline in birth rates.

The population problem has been in Russia for a long time. Russia’s Pravda quoted population expert Igor Beloborodov as saying on the 24th that as early as the 1960s, the Russian birth rate was insufficient to maintain the level of population replacement, but this problem has been ignored for a long time. After the 1990s, the situation of population decline has become very obvious. He also pointed out that in order to improve the population situation, each family in Russia needs to have three or more children.

Russia has a population of about 147 million. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the population of the Russian region has fallen by more than 5 million. The turbulent times of the 1990s led to a sharp decline in the birth rate. Now, the generation born at that time reached the age of marriage and birth, highlighting the serious challenges facing the country.

Statistics from the Russian Statistical Office show that last year, an average of 12.9 children per 1,000 Russians were the lowest since 2011. It is expected that this number will be reduced to 9 by 2035.

Anatoly Vishnyevsky, director of the Russian Institute of Higher Economics, said that the decline in the country's population was mainly due to the decline in the number of women of childbearing age, which was mainly the result of the collapse of the Second World War and the economic downturn and welfare system of the 1990s.

He predicts that “this downward trend will continue for about 15 years. Correspondingly, if there are fewer mothers, there will be fewer children. Increasing the birth rate itself cannot make up for the decline in the number of women of childbearing age.”

According to the Russian Satellite News Agency, as early as 2006 in the State of the Union speech, Putin pointed out that the population problem is Russia's most pressing issue, and suggested reducing mortality, improving immigration policies, and increasing fertility. In 2012, he once again emphasized the demographic challenges facing the country in his State of the Union address.

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