Supporting retired people looked like: “They were 20.6 million in the year 2000…” and there is the prediction that the numbers will increase to, “…45.6 million by 2025” (as cited in Feng, 2005, Rapid increase in population aging, para. 2). This threat will, and certainly already caused, problems to government’s budget to take care of so many pensioners. So, the negative population growth desired yesterday seems to be economy’s enemy today