It's not that it was a societal welfare system, but rather its preceding plan—using artificial womb technology to massively breed human infants, in order to achieve a 5% population growth rate every year. In fact, many people had already been informed of this proposal and had discussed it for some time, but the controversies were still quite significant.
Mr. Zhang Yuan suppressed the crowd and slowly began, "Ladies and gentlemen, according to our population report, how many were born last year? The exact figure, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, a fertility rate of point three six percent. The birth rate is extremely low, alarmingly so! Indeed, our population structure is still very young, with a mortality rate of zero. Add to that the low quality of life and poor objective conditions, delaying childbirth for a few years doesn't seem like much."
"But consider, what happens in fifty years?"
