新闻报报看| 随着华人趋向少子化，大马华文理事会主席王鸿财表示，虽然华裔生育率下降还不至于影响整体华小的存在，但确实将进一步影响招生人數本來就很少微型华小的生存。再加上，90%的学生集中在城市和新兴城市华小并没平均分布，已经导致近70所微型华小因没有学生来源而被迫关闭。（主播：庄文杰、蔡心慧）
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00:00 Some friends are afraid of the new year. Why?
00:02 Because when they see their relatives or friends, they feel stressed.
00:05 They are always surrounded by the topic of "hurrying to get married".
00:08 When they get married, they are urged to have children.
00:11 When they have children, they will ask when they will have the next child.
00:15 Yes, we will ask about the next child in the future.
00:16 This year's New Year of the Peasant is different.
00:19 It's not relatives or friends anymore.
00:20 It's the Republican Party's Parliamentary Member, Shen Zhiqin.
00:23 He is more anxious than your family's relatives or friends to hurry to get married or have children.
00:28 Shen Zhiqin started at the beginning of the third year.
00:31 The New Year of the Peasant in the West was more popular around the fifth year.
00:34 Until now, in fact, in the past four days,
00:36 you can see him posting on his social media.
00:39 He constantly publishes different data to urge the Chinese to get married and have children.
00:44 He even encourages Chinese couples to have more babies in the auspicious Dragon Year.
00:50 WhyB, why are you so concerned about the life of Chinese children?
00:54 Shen Zhiqin is worried that the birth rate of Chinese children
00:57 will continue to decline in the past 25 years,
01:00 which may affect the survival of Chinese primary schools.
01:03 In order to increase the tax revenue, whyB has done a lot of research
01:06 and cited the statistics of the Bureau of Statistics.
01:08 In 2022, the total number of newborns was 423,124.
01:14 There are only about 40,000 Chinese newborns,
01:17 which is less than 10%.
01:19 Five years later, in 2027,
01:22 this baby will be admitted to primary school.
01:25 There are a total of 1,200 Chinese primary schools in China.
01:28 Assuming everyone chooses Chinese primary school,
01:31 on average, each Chinese primary school will only attract 33 new students.
01:37 One school, only one class.
01:39 Is it that serious?
01:41 Wang Hongcai, Chairman of the Dama Chinese Literature Council,
01:43 posted a post today in response to Shen Zhiqin's remarks.
01:46 He said that the decline in the birth rate of Chinese children
01:49 would not affect the existence of Chinese primary schools as a whole.
01:52 But he also admitted that this would further affect the number of newborns.
01:57 The already small number of micro-sized Chinese primary schools
02:00 would be even worse and affect their survival.
02:03 Wang Hongcai mentioned that the number of Chinese primary school students
02:05 from 600,000 10 years ago to 500,000 in 2022.
02:10 There are nearly 20% of the deducted numbers
02:13 are non-Chinese students.
02:16 The number of Chinese students is only about 400,000.
02:20 So, over the years, the number of Chinese primary school students has been declining.
02:24 The Chinese minority, plus 90% of students
02:28 are concentrated in urban or new urban Chinese primary schools,
02:32 does not have an average distribution.
02:34 Therefore, micro-sized Chinese primary schools will be the first to be affected.
02:38 Wang Hongcai said that there are currently 1,302 Chinese primary schools in China.
02:43 More than 620 of them belong to micro-sized Chinese primary schools.
02:47 This ratio is nearly half.
02:49 According to the Ministry of Education,
02:50 there are nearly 70 micro-sized Chinese primary schools that are closed
02:54 due to the lack of students.
02:56 The Chinese minority is not the only one affected.
03:00 Shen Zhiqin believes that this will also affect the national interest.
03:04 How?
03:05 He described that, from a political point of view,
03:07 politics is a game of counting people's heads.
03:10 Everyone understands this.
03:11 You need to have enough voice to participate in promoting policies and development.
03:15 You need to have enough people.
03:18 In other words, from an economic point of view,
03:21 Shen Zhiqin said that if there are many elderly people,
03:23 the consumption will decline,
03:24 and the country will lack taxpayers.
03:26 This will affect economic development.
03:29 And then there is the cultural heritage and educational development.
03:32 There needs to be more young people to promote.
03:35 Of course, Shen Zhiqin agreed with this.
03:37 He told everyone that marriage and children are personal choices.
03:41 And he only encouraged everyone to have more children in the next few years
03:45 because of the country's political and cultural considerations.
03:47 Finally, I want to add a little.
03:49 According to the fourth quarter of the 2023 census,
03:51 the birth and death rate of the population shows that
03:54 the population of my country has increased from 30,000 to 50,000 in 2022
04:00 to 30,000,000 in 2023.
04:06 Among them, the population of the Chinese people is still 6.9 million.
04:10 But the population ratio has decreased slightly from 22.7% to 22.6%.
04:16 The population of Malaysians is the largest.
04:18 From 17.5 million in 2022 to 17.7 million,
04:24 57.9% of which has increased by 0.1%.
04:28 The population of Indians is 2 million, which is 6.6%.
04:32 As for the birth rate,
04:33 compared with the fourth quarter of 2022,
04:36 the birth rate of the three major ethnic groups of China and India has decreased.
04:39 Among them, the birth rate of Chinese people has decreased from 10.4% to 9.3%.
04:45 The decline is the largest among the three major ethnic groups.
04:48 In addition, the population of Indians has decreased from 4.4% to 4.1%.
04:52 Although the birth rate of Malaysians is still very high,
04:54 it has decreased from 67.4% to 67.2%.
04:59 Only other indigenous people have increased from 12.5% to 13.3%.
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