China is pushing couples to have more babies for the good of the country. Many young people are saying no

After decades of forcing Chinese couples to limit themselves to just one child, Beijing has now reversed course and is urging people to have more babies. But years after abandoning the One Child Policy, China’s population is still in decline. In 2014, 14.6 million babies were born in China, but last year, it was only nine million. Amid challenges finding work, high childcare costs and a generation of only children feeling the pressure of looking after aging parents, many young people are ambivalent about having babies, while some are electing to have no kids at all. “Because our job is…