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This situation increased production and decreased overall costs, a sort of “demographic dividend”. But within the next year or so, this will end. The working-age population will start to decline for the first time. And the numbers of those over 60-65 will grow. In an interesting coincidence, the China Pavilion built for the 2010 Shanghai Expo bears a striking similarity to China’s demographic future.
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Jeffrey Towson (The One Hour China Consumer Book: Five Short Stories That Explain the Brutal Fight for One Billion Consumers)