-“God willing, all 76 million of us will build the Great East together!”
The President said these words in 2013. In 2026, our current population is 86 million… Since that day, our population growth rate and birth rates have dropped significantly, our family and social structure have deteriorated greatly, and in terms of these indicators, have we moved closer to or further away from building the Great East? As the saying goes, “this rice will need much more water,” and we are on that trajectory… Naturally, as part of our struggle to be “an intellectual responsible for their era,” we could not bring ourselves to ignore where the society is coming from and where it is heading, nor let the words of a head of state be forgotten where they were spoken. It seemed incumbent upon us to take stock of this statement and our condition under those words.

In that case, let us see the balance sheet immediately:

•⁠ ⁠If we were to attempt to build the Great East today, in this society and along these current trajectories, what kind of picture would emerge?