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Moon New Year Spring Festival 2019
On Tuesday, the year of the Erdschweins begins in China - traditionally means the prospect of luck. Beijing is particularly dependent on that. Because the economy is weakening, and foreign countries are at a distance from the People's Republic.
China's New Year starts at night on the 5th of February at midnight. It is after the twelve zodiac signs of the traditional calendar under the fortunate influence of Erdschweins. The last time that a year was marked by the pig was 2007 - the twelve years in between seem like an eternity.
At that time, China's planners feared a setback for their one-child birth planning. Superstitious young Chinese were planning to send a large number of offspring to the world. For every child, as the New Year's prophets, who was born in 2007, proclaimed, would live a lifetime of prosperity and happiness. Newspapers warned, "The baby swindle is coming!"
As quoted in welt.de, This year is different, there are no warnings: Beijing would love to see more offspring. Demoscopes are raising alarm: China's population growth has fallen below reproductive levels after 30 years of strict birth control: society is aging rapidly. Although families are likely to have two children again since 2015, they are not using the new permit. In 2018, two million fewer babies were born than in the previous year, which was already in negative territory.
In 2019, according to the population researchers, the birth rate will continue to fall. If this trend continues, then even the rise of the People's Republic to become a world power would be endangered by 2030 at the latest. The State Post printed on their New Year's stamp a happy pig pair with three piglets. Beijingers lined up in long queues to grab the value-enhancing brand. Nevertheless, they do not want more children.
Personality cult around Xi Jinping
The party is drumming for the festival to raise optimism. At the weekend even KP chief Xi Jinping was in New Year's on the streets of Beijing. He personally stuck the character Fu, which means "luck", to the door of a house. The "Beijing Evening Newspaper" wrote on its front page: "The secretary-general of the party is sticking to the sign Fu."
She dedicated a full seven pages to Xi, who kneaded Chinese ravioli with the locals after New Year's Eve - a new culmination of the person cult made around the sole ruler. "There is no sense of distance between us and the chairman," the residents shouted. The visit filled her with great confidence for her future.
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This is necessary in view of the gloomier economic prospects for 2019, the trade and power dispute with the US and Beijing's conflicts with more and more states of the West. On the net, bloggers scoff at what they expect from the pig year: "2019 will be the worst year of the past decade. But think positive! - It will be the best year of the next ten years. "
Others include deterministic catastrophic events at the end of each decade, from the bloody short wars that China waged at its borders with the Soviet Union in 1969 and Vietnam in 1979, to the Tiananmen massacre of 4 June, which is still taboo.
Beijing promises to accelerate its economic reforms under the pressure of the US in the pig year 2019 and to bid farewell to its policy of forced joint ventures for foreign investors after 40 years.
In 1979, China was praised worldwide when it passed its first joint venture law allowing foreigners to set up joint businesses with domestic companies. It took four years until September 1983 (a year of the pig) for the first time detailed implementing provisions for joint ventures came into force.
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