your thoughts This article covers the decline that China has seen over the last two years. This decline was driven by higher death rates and lower birth rates. This decline that this country is experiencing over the last two years is the first time since 1961, which was driven by a great famine. China is facing challenges at all generational levels, with a aging populations, an unsure economy and the fact that rearing a child is now at its highest cost that the country has seen. Childcare and education costs are not appealing to young couples, so if they are having a child, they do not desire to have more than one child. Local governments have also talked about increasing incentives, maternity leave, and housing, but nothing has currently been actually put into place. The residents do not see that these potential incentives to be enough to encourage them to actually have more children