The Dhaka Times Desk In a city in the eastern part of China, the news is being given a holiday to love! Several companies are known to be doing this.
No doubt anyone will be surprised to hear that there is a holiday to love. But this is actually happening. Several companies in China are giving their employees a break to love! That said, there is no particular organization. Many organizations of the country have introduced this kind of holiday tradition.
A news about this was published in the South China Morning Post newspaper very recently. According to the news, two companies in Hangzhou in the eastern part of China are giving their employees this extra 'dating leave' or leave for love!
According to reports, billions of people in China are preparing to take time off from work to visit their families to celebrate the Lunar New Year. In this case, some lucky employees are getting an additional 8 days of leave from their workplace along with their 7 days of regular leave. It is given only to unmarried women in their thirties. Because they can find their life partner by making love.
However, it was reported earlier that the same kind of 'love leave' was being given to unmarried school teachers in the same city. In China, if a woman is still unmarried past the age of thirty, she is derisively called 'sheng nu', meaning 'cancelled' or 'abandoned girl'!
So many girls in China are now focusing more on their careers, so many are falling victim to such situations. Society still pressures girls to get married. On the other hand, the government has recently become very concerned about the way the number of working people in China is decreasing and the number of elderly people is increasing.
At some point, China had to go the way of population control. However, China abandoned its one-child policy in 2015 after following the same path for many years. The only reason is that the birth rate there is decreasing day by day. Meanwhile, the marriage rate has been decreasing in China every year since 2013. It has been observed that in 2018, more than one and a half million children were born in China. Which is 20 lakh less than the previous year.
There is also a large gender imbalance in China's population, according to news reports. The reason is that there was a tendency for families to adopt male children due to government policy. So there is a shortage of women in China. According to official estimates, there are now 30 million more men than women in China.
In that case, the opinion of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is that the country's population is currently 1.4 billion, it will decrease to 1.2 billion in the next 50 years. In this way, the Chinese government is worried about reducing the population.
Not only is the population shrinking, but the proportion of elderly people is also increasing, putting pressure on China's public coffers and social welfare system. Because finding a life partner is now a social and political challenge in China, unmarried women are being given extra leave to make love or find a life partner!
Huang Lei, human resources manager of Hangzhou Songchen Performance Company, said that many female workers have very little contact with the outside world. That is why women workers have to be given extra leave, so that they can give more time to interact and socialize with boys. Also, Huang Lei claimed, the workers are also very happy to get this 'dating leave'. However, he also has considerable questions about how much work such an experiment or policy will do. But what's the harm in trying?
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