I’m Chinese American, my entire family was born in China including myself.

My parents really want me to have children. And I mean now I kinda do too, but like I actually want to create life that have the positive childhood I had… but minus the bad parts (my parents were sometimes emotionally abusive, I certainly will not do that if I ever have children). But like when I was a teen, before I really thought about it, but my mom really pushed for it. She really want grandchildren. I mean she probably will have grandchildren, but I’ll have to limit their exposure to my mom… she could get toxic (sometimes, not always)… I know my maternal grandmother said awful things to me, I wouldn’t want my parents to do that to my kids.

I can’t speak for every Chinese person, idk about mainland China nowadays, but my mother really want bloodline to go on. I mean… she literally violated the One Child Policy to have me… she said she wanted my older brother to have someone to play with… (lol our relationship is kinda hostile now, cold-war like), and I feel like its the bloodline thing… if my brother dies, I could still carry on the blood, so its 2x more likely she’d have grandchildren basically, I’m sort of a “backup” in her eyes (she didn’t say it, but this is how I feel tbh). I had an experience when I ran away from home when I was like 6, and later I asked my mom how she’d feel if I got kidnapped, she said she’d just move on and focus on my older brother… like… bruh…

Cuz she’d still have a chance to continue the bloodline so she didn’t care if one of her kids went missing (she didn’t say this part, but I’m just assuming from what she said)

She tells me she loves me very often… but honestly idk, I’m kinda skeptical.

So TLDR: Many Chinese people do care. I was born around the 2000s and my parents certainly cares. I’m like military age now, those in the PLA were probably born around the same era as I did, I’m pretty sure the parents of the soldiers in the PLA would have the same mindset as my parents, they’re same generation I mean, but again, I’m not there anymore so I can’t say for certain.

Edit: Oh yea btw apparantly, my older brother is planning to go back to China for marriage and then bring them over here in the US. Because my mom is constantly urging him to get married and she used WeChat to contact her network of people to help find a potential match… so… yea… there’s that… arranged marriage sort of stuff.