China's Birth Rate Hits 261-Year Low, Xi's ‘New International Order’ Collapses!

Young people suffer sudden deaths during pandemic, gag orders issued by authorities. Mainland scholar, most many Chinese real estate firms face disappearance or M&A in 2024. 500,000 investors step on a landmine, Ding Yifeng reveals founders $3 billion embezzlement and arrest. HP Technologies' Shanghai company dissolution sparks concerns over HP's potential exit. China's birth rate plummets to 261-year low, expert warns of inability to forge new international order. It's all covered in today's China Truths. Young people suffer sudden deaths during pandemic, gag orders issued by authorities. The epidemic continues to spread within China, with hospitals in various regions, including the Northeast and Hebei, still grappling with overwhelming caseloads and sudden deaths among individuals in their 30s have skyrocketed, but authorities have issued a gag order. A netizen named Wang Yan, hailing from Ningbo in Zhejiang province, recounted an unsettling experience. Suddenly, two of her colleagues in their 30s tragically lost their lives right there in the office, suddenly collapsing and passing away. Officials attributed it to heart problems and discouraged any further inquiries. Privately, there have been discussions linking these incidents to Chinese vaccinations, but the workplace enforced silence. Notably, Ling Xiao, using a pseudonym, a resident of Nanjing, obtained information from sources within the Chinese Communist Party concerning a significant number of deaths attributable to the pandemic in China, but he cannot reveal his identity or provide further details. Ling further disclosed that, contrary to official figures, it appears that China's population is not as high as 1.4 billion. Based on records he has seen from the Ministry of Public Security, the registered population is slightly over 1 billion. Recently, China's National Health Commission stated that the CCP virus pandemic might experience a resurgence in China this month, with a high likelihood that the JN.1 variant will become the predominant strain. In reality, this wave of the pandemic has been devastating northern China for several months, resulting in consistently overcrowded hospitals. Authorities attribute this situation to the flu while concealing the true extent of the new coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Zheng, a resident of Tianjin, said that there are a considerable number of cases, but they are not being reported as COVID-19. His parents were admitted to the hospital a few days ago due to pneumonia. X-rays revealed severe lung issues, including copious white mucus. Treatment primarily involves intravenous fluid therapy. Hospital rooms are in critically short supply, and it took an entire day just to secure a spot in the queue. Similarly, another resident from Liaoning disclosed that currently, doctors are primarily administering injections with limited explanations. Mainland scholar, most many Chinese real estate firms face disappearance or MNA in 2024. Chinese economist Ren Zeping proposed 10 predictions for China's housing market this year on January 17. He pointed out that the reshuffle of the real estate industry this year is the general trend and most real estate companies will disappear or be merged and reorganized. Ren Zeping posted on his WeChat official account Zeping Macro that the era of great development in China's real estate market has come to an end this year, and it has entered an era dominated by existing housing, inventory housing. The main group of home buyers is between the ages of 20 and 50. Due to factors such as the emergence of a turning point in the long-term population cycle, the real estate market will show a trend of changing according to population in the long term, land in the medium term, and finance in the short term. Ren Zeping believes that China's real estate market is facing adjustment and differentiation. Adjustment means digesting the previous high housing prices, high inventory, and high leverage. He pointed out that the direction of China's housing market is related to the employment of tens of millions of people, dozens of upstream and downstream industrial chains, and the security of financial credit. Global economic history shows that real estate is the mother of economic cycles, and nine out of ten crises are related to real estate. Ren Zeping predicts that the relaxation of restrictive measures such as purchase restrictions, loan restrictions, and price limits will be the general trend. Because the situation has changed and China's housing market has shifted from preventing overheating to preventing overcooling, the authorities should speed up the lifting of restrictive measures. He emphasized that the reshuffle of China's real estate industry is the general trend this year, and most real estate companies will disappear or be merged, acquired, and reorganized. Recently, the Chinese Communist Party issued an order that it is prohibited to speak ill of the Chinese economy. Many financial bloggers have been banned one after another. On another issue, on January 14th, Ren Zeping also posted five consecutive questions to Pinduoduo on Weibo, questioning Pinduoduo's rampant counterfeit products. He also accused either you condone thieves or you are a thief yourself. It's time to pay attention to the rampant counterfeit goods. Pinduoduo has not responded publicly, but netizens are talking about it. Netizens said that Pinduoduo does have fake products, but because people have no money, they cannot afford the real ones. 500,000 Investors Step on a Landmine, Ding Yifeng Reveals Founders $3 Billion Embezzlement and Arrest. Ding Yifeng International Asset Management Group's failure to meet its payment obligations has raised concerns among investors. According to Mainland China Securities Times, Ding Yifeng claimed that its wealth management products could yield annualized returns of up to 100%, but the nature of the underlying assets remained unclear. Since August of the previous year, many investors have been unable to retrieve both their principal and interest, resulting in waves of investors seeking repayment at Ding Yifeng's office locations. On January 16th of this year, another large group of investors gathered at Ding Yifeng's office building in Shenzhen's Jingxi Bintang Square to inquire about the maturity dates of their wealth management products. Some investors demanded that Chairman Cui Guangyi, the actual controller of Ding Yifeng, and President Ma Xiaoqiu, one of Ding Yifeng's founders, address the issue. A manager from the company's international division, surnamed Li, explained that Ma had attempted to abscond with the money to the United States last month and had been detained by the She is currently out on bail, which makes it inconvenient for her to appear. Notably, Li disclosed that Ma took at least 3 billion yuan, about 421.44 million US dollars, and the funds have been transferred to the US. However, this claim has yet to be independently verified. Regarding Cui Guangyi, he has not left the country and is in negotiations with Middle Eastern consortiums to bring in funds to address the pressing situation. Manager Li mentioned that she had also invested 2 million yuan, nearly 281,000 US dollars, herself, so she shares the same concerns as other investors. She advised the investors who had come to seek repayment to return home and await updates, allowing the company some time to address the issue. Reports indicate that approximately 500,000 investors are registered in Ding Yifeng's internal computer system, and the total debt facing the company is estimated at around 132 billion yuan, approximately 18.5 billion US dollars. The reports also reveal that nearly all the jurisdiction courts specified in the subscription agreements between investors and Ding Yifeng are Hong Kong courts. Some lawyers have pointed out that these agreements contain many terms unfavorable to investors, and the legal costs associated with litigation in Hong Kong courts can be very high, making it challenging for investors to pursue legal action. On overseas social media, some financial experts have accused Ding Yifeng's unconventional investment approach of being untrustworthy, and its failure to meet payment obligations is seen as just another Ponzi scheme collapse. On Tuesday, January 16, shares of Ding Yifeng Holdings, listed in Hong Kong, plunged by 32.84 percent, resulting in a total market capitalization of only 1.4 billion Hong Kong dollars. It's worth noting that in the middle of last year, rumors circulated in Chinese online communities that Sui and Ma, key figures in Ding Yifeng, had a falling out. In February of last year, Ma resigned from all positions, and links between Ma and Ding Yifeng's promotions were removed in large numbers. HP Technologies' Shanghai company dissolution sparks concerns over HP's potential exit. Over the past week, there has been online circulation of news regarding the official shift of HP Technology's Shanghai company, limited from being in operation to deregistered. This move has sparked concerns about HP also gradually withdrawing from China. HP Shanghai, established in March 2002 with Zhuang Jingsong as the legal representative, had a registered capital of $6 million. Its business operations included the sale of HP computers and information hardware, management of operation centers, maintenance and after-sales services, international procurement, and more. The company was fully owned by Alpha Holding 1BV. According to the current information on the official website, HP China, a subsidiary of HP in mainland China headquartered in Beijing, has branches in Shanghai, recently deregistered, On January 17, HP China responded, stating that its branch in Shanghai has been dormant without any business activities or employees for the past few years. With approval from HP headquarters, the process of industrial and commercial deregistration has been completed smoothly. This action will not impact the normal operations of HP's other two companies in Shanghai, and HP China remains committed to providing quality services to its customers. The deregistration of HP Shanghai has sparked concerns about HP gradually withdrawing from the mainland. On January 18, a post on NetEase indicated that plans for HP's capacity migration had surfaced in early 2023. An unnamed source disclosed that HP had convened multiple electronic manufacturing suppliers to clarify the industrial relocation plan. Specifically, business-grade laptop production would move to Mexico for the North American market, while consumer-grade laptops would relocate to Thailand for Europe, Asia Pacific, and China. HP also increased investment in Vietnam and India, confirming a factory construction application submitted to the Indian government in August 2023, indicating an accelerating pace of capacity migration. Data also reveals that in 2023 alone, HP's notebook production outside of China exceeded 5 million units, constituting 10% of HP's global production. The clear industrial relocation plan and the actual pace of migration strongly support the authenticity of this information. In recent years, due to escalating international geopolitical conflicts, currency fluctuations, trade embargoes, pandemic lockdowns, and other factors, the security of the international supply chain is receiving heightened attention. Major multinational companies like Apple and Samsung are relocating production capacity to North America and Southeast Asia to mitigate industry risks. In this process, enterprises in the industrial chain are also relocating, becoming an undeniable reality. Another significant factor contributing to industrial relocation is the high operating costs in the mainland, as the previous cost advantage of domestic enterprises has been overtaken by Southeast Asian countries. The article on Weibo concludes that with the deregistration of HP, Shanghai, the pace of its industrial relocation may accelerate. For industrial workers, the transfer of enterprise capacity implies unemployment, and determining their future paths becomes a new and pressing issue. China's birth rate plummets to 261-year low, expert warns of inability to forge new international order. According to Chinese population scientist Yi Fuxian, China's birth rate has plummeted to 9.02 million in 2023, leading to two consecutive years of negative population growth. This revelation was presented in his article titled The Unprecedented Population Transformation in China for Millennia, which was published on the Voice of America Chinese website. In this article, Yi Fuxian emphasized that China's National Bureau of Statistics had officially disclosed the 2023 population data, revealing a mere 9.02 million births for the year. This figure represents the lowest birth rate recorded since 1762 when China's population stood at just 200 million. In comparison to India, a nation with a similar total population, China's birth rate is only one-third of India's. He further pointed out that the officially reported birth figures in China were significantly inflated before 2020 and have continued to be overstated. For instance, the officially reported number of births in 2021 was 10.62 million, but according to sampling surveys, it may not have even reached 10 million. Similarly, the 2023 birth figures announced recently are likely to have been exaggerated as well. Yi Fuxian contends that China's birth rate in 2023 is merely one-third of that recorded in 1990, signifying a sharp decline in China's manufacturing industry. A lower birth rate is associated with reduced consumer spending, indicating persistently sluggish domestic demand. Consequently, China's economy and employment will increasingly depend on exports, necessitating improvements in foreign relations. The unexpectedly rapid aging population and dwindling labor force indicate that China's economic decline is not a temporary downturn, but rather a structural and irreversible shift. He goes on to analyze that China's lower-than-expected population suggests that the demographic foundation supporting the wolf-warrior policy, characterized by domestic pressure and international aggression, no longer exists. Therefore, China will have to pursue strategic contraction, as it will be incapable of establishing a new international order. Recent statements made by the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department Minister Liu Jianchao during his visit to the United States, in which he stated that China does not seek to change the existing international order, lend support to this assessment. Yi Fuxian argues that China's fertility rate has been below replacement level since 1991 and should have abandoned the one-child policy much earlier. He has been advocating against this policy since 2000 and forecasted in his 2007 book Big Country, Empty Nest, that if the one-child policy persisted, China's total population would commence declining in 2017. However, Chinese authorities did not heed his recommendations and instead banned his book. He also highlights that China implemented a three-child policy in 2021 based on arguments from a research team led by Li Jianwei at the State Council's Development Research Center, claiming that this policy is sufficient to achieve long-term balanced development of China's population. Nonetheless, the fertility rate in 2023 stands at only 1.0, well below the 2.1 needed for population replacement. In conclusion, Yi Fuxian firmly asserts that despite the Chinese authorities' belief that the world is witnessing a historic upheaval of unprecedented magnitude due to the rise of China, the actual reality is that the world is experiencing a historic upheaval of unprecedented magnitude characterized by the Don't forget to comment in the section below to share your opinions on today's topic with us. If you find the information helpful, please share this video with a friend to watch together. This will be a great source of motivation for our team to produce more and more quality and reliable videos. And also don't forget to like and subscribe to see more interesting topics from Chinatruths. Thank you for tuning in.