Luo Yonghao recently released a trailer for his latest blog. The heavyweight guest of this episode is Ctrip founder and demographer Liang Jianzhang. The cross-border conversation between the two celebrities quickly triggered a heated discussion among netizens. In the preview video, Liang Jianzhang gave a very optimistic prediction for China's future technological innovation.
He believes that in the next ten to twenty years, China's technological innovation will continue to lead the world. However, he also emphasized that the development trend in two decades will completely depend on whether China can successfully solve the demographic challenges it currently faces.
Because Liang Jianzhang has long called attention to the fertility rate in public and made many suggestions to encourage childbirth, many netizens jokingly called him the director of the fertility promotion office. In response to this ridiculing label, Liang Jianzhang responded positively in the program.
He admitted that he did not like this title very much and tried to deconstruct this social proposition from the perspective of personal choice. He raised a thought-provoking question to the audience: In this society, do more people regret having children, or do they regret not having children in their later years?
Liang Jianzhang tried to use this comparison to guide the public to re-examine the individual value and social significance of childbearing. He has always insisted that population size is the long-term foundation of scientific and technological innovation. Without sufficient support from the demographic dividend, China's leading edge in the technological field may face the risk of being unsustainable in the future.
