China Is Trying To boost Low Birth Rates As Population Shrinks.

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Hong Kong: China’s population fell by 850,000 last year, the first drop in six decades, signalling a long-term decline with enormous economic implications.
Demographic catastrophe facts are below.

ONE-CHILD POLICY

-From 1980 until 2015, China had a one-child policy due to government worries about the social and economic effects of fast population increase.

– Violators were penalised and forced to get abortions under the one-child policy. Due to historical and cultural preferences for boys, numerous gender selective abortions occurred.

-China claims the measure prevented 400 million births.

-From 2016, all married couples could have a second child.

-Beijing allowed three children in 2021.

INCENTIVES

The one-child policy, high schooling costs, and limited daycare choices have deterred many Chinese from having more than one child or any at all.

Since 2021, local governments have offered tax rebates, maternity leave, and housing assistance to increase births.

Beijing also prohibited private tutors from profiting from teaching essential subjects on weekends and holidays that year. Industry costs were outrageous.

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Other steps include:

-Last August, China’s National Health Commission asked central and provincial governments to enhance reproductive health spending and childcare services nationally.

– Last year, China’s state council announced new policies to support flexible working hours and work-from-home for parents.

-Last year, the State Council ordered local governments to give multi-child families larger public housing units.

-Shenzhen, in southern China, pays couples with three or more children an annual payment of over 6,000 yuan ($890) until the child turns three.

– Mothers with second or third children in Jinan, Shandong’s capital, receive 600 yuan per month until their children turn three.

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— Abdul Rahman Mashood (@abdulrahmanmash) January 18, 2023