In China, a large number of working women with two children have no career goal and feel lost at work, according to a recent report.Of 4,000 people polled, only 37 percent said they are working to a clear career plan after having a second child, according to a survey conducted by the Guangdong Academy of Population Development, a governmental institution in Guangzhou, Guangdong province.Moreover, a rising number of women who have two children are quitting their jobs as a result of the pressures associated with working and caring for babies.Zhu Yuzi, who led the research team, said up to 75 percent of women with two children experience controllable levels of anxiety, while the remaining 25 percent said the pressure is unbearable.Less than a quarter of two-child mothers who suffer anxiety have chosen to alleviate the problem through education and personal development, while most of the others feel they must make sacrifices. They see themselves as weak and victims who need other people's help, Zhu said.However, if they become overdependent on other people, it will be difficult to overcome the inner anxiety and pressures caused by caring for newborn babies, and that could lead to unhappiness, she added.According to Hu Wanfei, chief editor of mama.cn, a website that focuses on mother-child relationships, the growth of opportunities for people to start their own companies should make it easier for mothers to build careers, and women should not give up their roles in society.Irrespective of whether they are full-time mothers or mothers with jobs, they should become stronger people for their own sakes and for their children, she said.In the past year, both the number of newborn babies and the birthrate have fallen, prompting discussion about the introduction of new measures to further encourage childbirth.Nevertheless, according to the Guangdong survey, 79 percent of women with two children said they will not have any more. Among all respondents - including women with either one or two children - 77 percent said the ideal number is two. Only 15 percent of respondents said it would be good to have three or more children, while 7 percent said they only want one child. silicone wristbands vancouverhow to do rubber band braceletscheap custom braceletsbusiness silicone wristbandssilicon wristbands
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2018 at the BFA International Convention Center in Boao, Qionghai city, south China's Hainan province, April 10, 2018. [Photo/Agencies] 'Globally important' Belt and Road plan can be win-win for whole world The globally important Belt and Road Initiative is well on the way to bringing tremendous opportunities for business growth around the world, several researchers in the United States and Canada have said. Speaking at the Boao Forum for Asia early on Tuesday, President Xi Jinping said the plan may be China's idea, but its opportunities and outcomes are going to benefit the whole world. Xi also said that as a new initiative, it is perfectly natural for there to be different views on cooperation. It is a globally important initiative that represents perhaps the most coherent grand strategy in world affairs at the moment, according to Kent E. Calder, director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Calder, who was in Boao, Hainan province, attending the Asian Davos, said the plan, capitalizing on China's central location in Eurasia and the global value of connectivity, is a potential win-win for participants. Proposed by Xi in 2013, the initiative comprises the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. It aims to build a trade, investment and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along and beyond the ancient Silk Road trade routes. Last year, Chinese enterprises made $14.36 billion in nonfinancial direct investment in 59 countries involved in the initiative, according to official statistics. Its very ambition makes full implementation difficult, but there could be opportunities for US firms in such areas as construction equipment, engineering and project finance, Calder said. David Dollar, a senior fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center of the Brookings Institution, said the Belt and Road Initiative is a global effort on China's part to fund infrastructure investment. He said currently most projects are undertaken by Chinese companies, so there are not a lot of business opportunities for US firms. But Jon Taylor, a professor of political science of the University of St. Thomas in Houston, sees things differently. There are tremendous opportunities for US businesses - if they are willing to put in the effort, said Taylor, who has written extensively on China. Some US companies, such as Chubb, General Electric and Caterpillar, all have publicly stated that they see the Belt and Road Initiative as an opportunity for business growth, he said. Given China's history of nonintervention and support for economic globalization, Xi was smart to note that the Belt and Road Initiative is what it is: An infrastructure and investment program, Taylor said. While it may have the effect of extending China's influence - as is the case with initiatives by all major world powers - developing a massive, multinational economic zone benefits the world. Gordon Houlden, director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta, Canada, said the plan is easily the single largest international program of trade and investment in the 21st century. He said that the initiative is still in its early stages, and international support for it would continue to increase as foreign bidders are increasingly getting involved. The plan has gained support from more than 100 countries and international organizations, with at least 80 nations and international bodies having signed deals with China for cooperation within the framework, according to earlier media reports.
