Aging population

"The world's most populous nation, which has built its economic strength on seemingly endless supplies of cheap labor, China may soon face manpower shortages. An aging population also poses difficult political issues for the Communist government. The One-Child policy has spared the country an estimated 390 million births, but may ultimately lead to a stark imbalance between young and old. With China's breathtaking rise toward affluence, most people live longer and have fewer children, mirroring trends seen around the world. Those trends and the extraordinarily low birth rate have combined to create imbalances in the workforce. As workers become scarcer and more expensive in the increasingly affluent cities along China's eastern seaboard, the country will face growing economic pressures to move out of assembly work and other labor-intensive manufacturing, which will be taken up by poorer economies in Asia and beyond, and into service and information-based industries."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/30/world/asia/30aging.html … "Aging population" will have a long-term negative impact on this entity, which subtracts from the entity's value.