Dr. Lauren A. Johnston is a research associate, China Institute, SOAS, University of London. She is founder and managing director of New South Economics.
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An elderly woman looks at a young boy in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang province: Dongbei has the world's lowest total fertility rate of 0.55 births per woman. © Imaginechina/AP
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