-The biggest threat to economy, some say, is population ageing and decrease. Japan’s lost two decades are in essence the consequences of an aged and shrinking population. Europe is at risk of following the footsteps of Japan. Sustainability of the US economy will be tested when more and more baby-boomers start to retire. Even China, a country getting old before getting prosperous, has slowed down in potential growth.

-Is population ageing so horrifying?

-Having just lost the “demographic dividend”, is China really at the doorsteps of a demographic crisis as some warn? If yes, why so soon?

-Should the birth control policy be abandoned?

-“Positive ageing” and the second “demographic dividend”