Shu Hong's Reflection ( 2 )

  SHU HONG'S  ( ONE CHILD POLICY)

Firstly, let me tell you roughly where the one child policy first started. There was a period of time, where the birth rate in China was increasing rapidly. The growing population had caused the shortage of food as there was more mouths to feed.

Now, let us move on to talk about the food supply of Singapore. In Singapore, do we face food shortages? Despite the fact that we have a large population, there isn't really any food shortage as we can import goods. Thus, we can prevent food shortage. However, we must still be aware that the fact that we are importing goods from other countries, once they decided to break the contract, we will be unable to have a supply of food. This will cause us to lose our source of food.

In Singapore, the government encourages more people to give birth rather than having the one child policy. This is because Singapore is a small country and the government wants to make the small country to be full of youths. Thus, Singapore population is rising.

Singapore might suffer will sometimes suffer from the 'drought' that occurs occasionally and water-rationing exercises have been implemented to solve this crisis.

As I have mentioned above, another problem is that other countries may refuse to sell us products or our daily necessities. Thus, Singapore government have been trying to keep good relationship with other countries to ensure that we continue to trade with each other.