How to ensure fertility support policies yield desired results
Medical staff at the People's Hospital of Yuping county, Tongren city, Guizhou province, care for newborns on Jan 2, 2024. China has greatly eased its strict family planning policy, and is now encouraging couples to have two to three children by implementing fertility support policies. Furthermore, a few of the current family planning regulations lack rationality and supervision, and some enterprises are still reluctant to incur additional costs of granting long maternity leave, and refusing to implement or only implementing part of fertility support policies. The government needs to consider the actual fertility intention of women of childbearing age, too, and devise differentiated incentives for all urban and rural couples of childbearing age and families with children, in order to encourage couples to have two to three children. The government also needs to implement housing support policies for families with children, and give preference to families with two-three children in difficulty when allocating low-rent housing, public rental housing and affordable housing.
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