Is another baby boomer generation coming?

China could ease one-child policy by year-end Published: Monday, 5 Aug 2013 | 3:03 AM ET

By: Ansuya Harjani | Writer, CNBC Asia

Beijing may relax the country's one-child policy by the end of 2013, say China watchers, following local media reports in the recent days that the government is mulling changes to its highly unpopular restriction that has been in place for three and a half decades.
"China's one-child policy could be eased around end-2013. We believe that the reform-minded president Xi and premier Li will use the opportunity of abolishing the one-child policy to build up their authority, show their determination in making changes and convince the Chinese people that they do have a roadmap for reforms," Ting Lu and Xiaojia Zhi, China economists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoFAML) wrote in a note over the weekend.
(Read More: The Backroom Battle Delaying Reform of China's One-Child Policy)

State news agency Xinhua late Friday reported that policymakers are deliberating whether to allow couples, where one parent is an only child, to have two children. Currently, both parents must be sole children to be eligible for a second child. The government is also assessing whether to allow all families to have two children after 2015, according to local media.
BoFAML estimates that the policy change, if implemented, could result in 9.5 million additional babies being born in the first five years post reform, or almost 2 million per year, as women fulfill their desire to have a second child. Approximately 16 million babies are born in the mainland each year.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100938297

中国考虑未来5年放开二胎政策

: 中国全国政协委员、人口资源环境委员会副主任王玉庆6日透露，目前计划生育部门正在考虑未来五年放开二胎政策，他认为不会导致人口暴涨。现在中国的农村和少数民族地区，如果第一胎是女孩儿，政策允许生第二胎。王玉庆认为，这一政策可以在城市逐步放开，因为中国的老龄化问题比较突出。[李冬玉委员建议试行“单独二胎”政策] >>>>

http://www.china.com.cn/news/node_7112889.htm

I can see the immediate problems facing the new policies, the reintroducing of these words; brother, sister, uncle, aunt, etc.

Really, we can have another child? Now I am worried about him having no clue what are brothers or sisters.

Managing population growth was critical in China which imposed a one child policy in 1978. Fifteen years ago, I traveled to the city of Fu Chou in Fujien province, China. I took a picture of this huge propaganda sign which meant: Family planning requires hard works daily. But reading in Chinese it could be interpreted as: Family planning requires having sex every day.

Speaking of baby boom, that should include panda babies,

Taipei, Taiwan

Baby Panda Born At Taipei Zoo, Yuan Zai, Meets Mom For The First Time.

The Taipei Zoo is celebrating its newest resident, a one-month old giant panda nicknamed Yuan Zai. The little cub was born to parents Yuan Yuan and Tuan Tuan in July and is the first panda ever born in Taiwan.
There are fewer than 1,600 pandas left in the wild and the animals are especially hard to raise in captivity. Pandas have a very small breeding window and when cubs are born they're highly susceptible to disease and smothering by their much larger mothers.
panda

Washington D. C., USA

It's A Girl! New Panda Is Doing Fine, National Zoo Says

by Mark Memmott

September 05, 2013 9:41 AM

The Smithsonian National Zoo's newest giant panda on Aug. 25, two days after her birth.

National Zoo/UPI/Landov

The giant panda cub born at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 23 is a girl, .
What's more, she "has a fat little belly" and seems to be doing just fine,

"officials at the zoo also announced that a DNA swab of the baby panda had determined that its father is Tian Tian, the National Zoo's resident male panda. Mei Xiang was artificially inseminated in March with sperm from both Tian Tian and Gao Gao []. This is Tian Tian's third cub: he sired Tai Shan, born in 2005, and a panda cub that died last year a week after its birth."
Read more: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/05/219243363/its-a-girl-new-panda-is-doing-fine-national-zoo-says

Yuan Zai, you are making us to forget about world problems.

Sit down, get a drink, turn up the volume and enjoy:

http://vimeo.com/69445362
Spent about 2 years made this 4 minutes beautiful film ~~~by Simon Christen

Adrift

from Simon Christen Plus 2 months ago all audiences

Update: Thank you so much to all of you. I am humbled and a little bit overwhelmed with all your comments. I am trying to answer all the questions (please keep 'em coming) but would like to thank each of you for taking the time to write a comment. I am reading them all. THANK YOU.
Almost 3/4 of a million views and 10k likes in one week, I am floored. It truly makes me happy that my little film is able to connect with you and hopefully evokes the same feeling of happiness that I felt while shooting it.

Thank you also so much to everybody that has left me tip. You are too kind!

花費兩年拍攝的四分鐘短片，像大海般流動的舊金山雲海
電影製片人 Simon Christen 拍攝了一支名為「Adrift」的影片，雖然影片不過短短的四分鐘，卻耗費 Simon Christen 將近兩年的時間拍攝而成，辛苦程度不言可喻.

這兩年 Christen 每天都在早上五點起床，並且上網查詢詳細的氣象資訊，評估當天的天氣狀況適不適合拍攝，接著花上 45分鐘的車程，到
Marin Headlands 拍攝，如果幸運一點當天的天氣光線條件都不錯，那他就會試著多留一點時間取景，驚人的毅力讓人佩服。

Stop and Frisk

Back to school

I live at a neighborhood where an elementary school is located at the street corner. Whenever I drive out passing by the school during school hours I would always get the death stares from the parents no matter how slow I drive, while these parents are double parked, chatting, yacking and letting the kids and dogs running around. Yes, they, the kids, are precious and one of them might become president in the future.

Labor Day