Chapter 495: Give Birth For Humanity’s Future!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Chen Xinjie entered the office gracefully with an enticing fragrance on her body. Placing the cup of tea on her hand before Luo Yuan, she whispered into his ear, "Mayor, 10 more minutes to the eting." Within two years, technology was not the only thing that changed rapidly, there were so changes in the people in City Hall as well. So of them were sacked for corruption and so just could not keep up with developnt while others were promoted.
His forr secretary, Cheng Guanghui was assigned to a new location as the director of the Industrial Bureau. He was replaced by Chen Xinjie as Luo Yuan’s secretary. To Cheng Guanghui, such a promotion was nothing to be happy about. Aside from having to work independently, it also ant that he would no longer be involved in the research on energy crystals any further.
In all honesty, Luo Yan was quite indifferent about Cheng Guanghui and it was rely an organizational transfer. Usually, secretaries for leaders would not hold their positions for more than three years before they were transferred. It was to prevent staff progress from stagnating and to avoid misuse of managent rights.
After all, being his secretary ant that he was Luo Yuan’s ambassador. Every move he made represented Luo Yuan’s will or at least it did in the eyes of others. More so in an era where power was a priority, the power a secretary held was even more than the other committee mbers. It was without a doubt, an unusual phenonon.
The reason why he chose Chen Xinjie as his secretary was because he knew her very well. She did not have a desire for power and she had a strong level of integrity. Besides, compared to others that Luo Yuan was not so familiar with, he would naturally trust people he had around him.
Luo Yuan looked at the ti and said, "It’s still early, let finish looking at these docunts."
Chen Xinjie did not disturb him and left soon after he said that. After Luo Yuan finished looking at the docunts, he stood up, tidied his clothes and walked out of his office. Chen Xinjie who was at the secretariat followed him with a pile of docunts in hand.
While they were on the way, they started chatting, "Is the birth rate that low nowadays?"
"It has been like this since the beginning of the apocalypse. Although the antidote virus did not mutate most of the human, slight changes had taken place. Humans were now vastly different than they were before the apocalypse, which heavily affected the birth rate." Luo Yuan said in a serious tone.
To spread the word on how evil Glassians were, news of the antidote virus which caused the mutation epidemic on earth, as well as countless deaths in the general population, were made known to the public. Chen Xinjie already knew about the news so it was nothing new to her. Soon, they arrived at the eting room. The guard who stood in front of the eting room was stunned to see them both but he got a hold of himself and opened the door.
It was not a eting with the managent but rather, a policy seminar. Aside from the leaders from each managent team, most of the people present were popular scientists and professors. Without wasting any more ti, Luo Yuan started the eting right away.
"This is the latest information on all the newborn babies in all the hospitals during the past two years. To date, there have only been 3,320 newborn children within the past two years. The birth rate is terrifyingly low and this cannot go on. If we do not do anything, we’d go extinct within 5,000 years! I have given each of you a copy of the information and all of you should have already read it. If anybody has any proposals, you’re welco to speak up and if you have anything to say about the cloned humans, you can voice your opinions too." Luo Yuan said.
Chen Xinjie was doing her best to write down the minutes of the etings as fast as she could in a corner, occasionally glancing at Luo Yuan. To her, that was the ti he was the most attractive.
"Respectable mayor and leaders, I am against cloning humans. At our current level of technology, it’s true that it wouldn’t be difficult to clone humans but cloning alone will rely increase the population and will do nothing to increase the birth rate of humans. If humans would give up natural thods of conceiving a child and fully turn to cloning to continue the human race, this may just work. However, this would create a huge impact on human society, causing a collapse in the old social model of a family and cause an uproar in society as we know it. In my opinion, the best way forward in tackling the low birth rate would be to continue our research in dicine." A social science professor covered with white hair stood up and said in all seriousness.
Luo Yuan frowned, not expecting the first person to speak up to speak against cloning.
"I think this old professor is too conservative. Every stage of progress in society will bring a certain level of impact. The matriarchal period, feudal period and the small family period before the apocalypse impacted society in various ways. The developnt of clones would naturally impact existing society, it is unavoidable. Now that there were few of us left and outer space was not sowhere safe, to even consider the impact cloning will bring society before we even solve the problem we’re currently facing is ridiculous.." Said a scientist who stood up after the professor.
He was young, seemingly not even 30 years old. However, young scientists nowadays were everywhere. Though they were young, it also ant that they were more open to new things. Compared to the older generation, he was much more radical and Luo Yuan had no comnts on that. Cloning was naturally the best way to solve the population issue and the effect was imdiate though there would always be side effects. Cloning had existed since the reconstruction area era but since humans were facing imnse stress to ensure their survival, it was not publicized.
Now that survival was no longer an issue, if human clones were discovered by civilians, there would be an uproar. Though he was respectable, his reputation will definitely take a hit so even though he had plans for human cloning since the very beginning, he still had to be careful.
"I partly agree with the old professor’s opinion. That being said, I’m not against human cloning. Instead, I’m against indiscriminate human cloning. I think we’ve reached a stage where we should be bio-engineering the human geno ourselves!" Director Wu stood up and proclaid. As he was given the task of creating the wisdom elixir, he was the most powerful figure in the field of genetics. However, two years had passed and there were still no results so his field of research had almost been marginalized.
"Of course, I’m not talking about genetic sequencing but instead, the purpose of it is to understand the functions of the genes in human DNA. After the functions of the genes are fully mapped, we’ll set the human genetic standard and get rid of genes that were affected by the antidote virus which causes infertility and the ills that is the human condition. Once we’ve done that, we’ll be able to take care of fertility..."
The old professor initially thought this man was supporting his idea but the more he spoke, the more ridiculous it sounded. His opinions were even more radical than the young scientist that spoke before him. The old professor could no longer take it and spoke up, interrupting him before he could even finish what he was saying, "This is absurd! How can you still call that human? It’s just sothing produced in a factory, this is truly ridiculous!"
"As a genetic researcher, humans and clones are not that different to ." Director Wu defended himself. "Life is not as sacred as you think it is. Evolution can be interrupted and the developnt of this technology is ant to serve the interest of humankind. Since we have advanced technology, why not utilize it? Better humans, longer lives, that’d definitely be another boost to human civilization."
The eting room beca crowded and everyone was seen talking to one another or arguing softly. As ti passed, the eting room grew noisier and noisier.
"Please, behave yourselves!" Luo Yuan reminded them. If they continued arguing, the conservative and radical camp might even start fighiting. Of course, as a young man himself, he leaned more towards the radical camp. Compared to the boring conservative camp, the radical camp was no doubt ant to be the direction human civilization should go towards.
However, if the ideas proposed were too radical, it would be rejected by many. Being in a position of power, he had to balance the opinions from both camps and co up with the best proposal for humankind to thrive.
Luo Yuan thought to himself and said, "I can see that all of you have your own opinions. However, I don’t think human cloning is against natural birth. At the sa ti, we cannot stop progressing towards the future just because of side effects. There are many married couples who are eager to have kids right now. Perhaps, we could provide fertility services to those in need."
"I agree with the mayor!" Bi Jianping said and continued, "As long as the marketing is done properly, such services would be in high demand. One way to do it would be to use the slogan ’Give Birth For Humanity’s Future!’"
"I agree with mayor’s opinion!" Bi Jianping said,"As long as the marketing is good, such service would be in high demand. Such as ‘Give Birth in The Favor of The People’s Future!"
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Naturally, Luo Yuan’s proposal passed with no objections but that did not an it could be carried out imdiately. There was still much to do. The first problem would be the appearance of the clones and the person who was cloned. That was the biggest concern of the people and if the issue was not solved, it would affect the implentation heavily.
That being said, perhaps it was not an issue after all. Maybe if they saw Luo Yuan as the one, they would not think of the appearance issue. He almost single-handedly modified the function of the human geno which included more than 10,000 types of evolved human genes. His powerful body and the clones he had at ho was the best example of this. Moreover, with the help of Glassian equipnt and the ability to directly modify the genes, it will take an estimated one or two years to fulfill all the requirents for mass human cloning.
Furthermore, the proposal that Luo Yuan brought up was not just a policy, it was a transition. When humans begin cloning children, they would slowly accept the existence of clones and when that happens, it would be the perfect timing for mass cloning.
After the eting was adjourned, he got the genetic scientists to stay.
In the afternoon, a large institute called the Human Geno Optimization Program was ford. A couple of days later, with instructions from the governnt, more and more researchers were sent to the institute. In reference to the genetic function Luo Yuan mapped made as well as the wisdom elixir docunts which were leaked on purpose, the program was progressing at an unbelievably rapid pace.
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