2014年12月日本内阁讨论了“城乡、人、工作创生长期愿景”和“城乡、人、工作创生综合战略”,二战后首次提出了人口发展目标,即50年后保持1亿人左右的人口规模。日本提出人口发展目标的背景,是在少子老龄化条件下,人口已经连续八年下降,劳动年龄人口减少。为实现人口发展目标和保持劳动年龄人口规模的稳定,日本在2014年相继出台了一些政策措施,提出发展地方经济,改变人口过度向东京地区集中的情况,提高总和生育率。同时,除挖掘女性和老年人的潜力,鼓励他们参与社会生产活动外,还放宽了引进外国人才的限制。在仅靠提高生育率难以达到人口规模1亿人左右目标的情况下,引进移民可能成为日本的一个选择。
<<In December of 2014,the Japanese cabinet discussed upon “the long-term vision of revival of urban and rural areas,labor and work” and “the comprehensive strategy of revival of urban and rural areas,labor and work”,for the first time putting forward the goal of population development since the end of WWII,referring to keeping above the level of 100 million population in the coming 50 years. The context of that proposed goal is the trend of growing aging population and the eight consecutive years of population decline. In order to reach the goal of population development and keep the size of the workforce on a certain level,in 2014,Japanese government have successively released a series of policies,attempting to revitalize local economies,solve the problem of excessive concentration of population in Tokyo and boost the birth rate. Besides the effort of tapping the potential of female and aging population in social production,Japanese government begins to loosen some restriction on the introduction of foreign talents,which is regarded as an important alternative for Japan to reach the goal of population development in the future with the low birth rate.
<<Keywords: | ImmigrantsForeign TalentsThe Goal of Japanese Population Development100 Million PopulationDecline of Workforce |