2024 policies signal a promising future for children
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2024 policies signal a promising future for children

China Daily  

Pupils study at a primary school for migrant children in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, Sept 15, 2007. This year has seen the framing of a range of new policies for children in China, which hold the promise of significant advances across a range of children's issues. A series of recent initiatives, including the National Action Plan for Migrant Children, the Preschool Education Law, and the Employment-First Strategy demonstrate a strong commitment to improving the lives of children and young people across the country. By ensuring that migrant children have access to quality education, healthcare and social services, regardless of their parents' hukou status, China is taking a significant step toward ensuring a more equitable and family-friendly society. Children's issues apart, China is also making strides on family-friendly policies to address its declining birth rates.

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2024 policies signal a promising future for children
3 months, 1 week ago

2024 policies signal a promising future for children

China Daily  

This year has seen the framing of a range of new policies for children in China, which hold the promise of significant advances across a range of children's issues. A series of recent initiatives, including the National Action Plan for Migrant Children, the Preschool Education Law, and the Employment-First Strategy demonstrate a strong commitment to improving the lives of children …

2024 policies signal a promising future for children
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3 months, 1 week ago

2024 policies signal a promising future for children

China Daily  

Pupils study at a primary school for migrant children in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, Sept 15, 2007. This year has seen the framing of a range of new policies for children in China, which hold the promise of significant advances across a range of children's issues. A series of recent initiatives, including the National Action Plan for Migrant Children, the Preschool …

China Embraces Multipronged Approach to Build Birth-Friendly Society
4 months, 3 weeks ago

China Embraces Multipronged Approach to Build Birth-Friendly Society

China Daily  

China is intensifying its efforts to build a more childbirth-friendly society through a multipronged approach. The government has unveiled a range of stimulus measures to support families with children, including expanding child care systems, cultivating a birth-friendly social atmosphere, and strengthening education, housing and employment support.

China Embraces Multipronged Approach to Build Birth-Friendly Society
4 months, 3 weeks ago

China Embraces Multipronged Approach to Build Birth-Friendly Society

China Daily  

China is intensifying its efforts to build a more childbirth-friendly society through a multipronged approach. The government has unveiled a range of stimulus measures to support families with children, including expanding child care systems, cultivating a birth-friendly social atmosphere, and strengthening education, housing and employment support.

Thousands of kindergartens closed across China as birth rate declines sharply
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Thousands of kindergartens closed across China as birth rate declines sharply

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy China’s declining birth rate has …

Young children deserve the best start in life
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Young children deserve the best start in life

China Daily  

JIN DING/CHINA DAILY Imagine a 3-year-old girl growing up in rural China. In the nearby town, there are regular early childhood development care group activities, where she gets to play with other children, and her parents learn how to provide nurturing and responsive care. For young children to achieve their full potential, they need five scientifically proven things: good health; …

How China lost the plot on population
1 year, 2 months ago

How China lost the plot on population

Hindustan Times  

On September 25, 1980, the Communist Party of China released a document, titled “Open Letter to members of the Chinese Communist Party and the Communist Youth League”, advocating the “one-child per couple” policy. “The policy also lightened pressure on peoples’ livelihood, on education, on job hunting and on medical care, and in turn has saved the nation and families the …

China Relaxes Family Planning Policy, Allows Couples to Have 3 Children
3 years, 9 months ago

China Relaxes Family Planning Policy, Allows Couples to Have 3 Children

News 18  

China has relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media reported Monday, further unwinding four decades of controls in the world’s most populous nation which have strangled the birthrate. Despite government efforts to encourage couples to have children, China’s annual births have continued to plummet …

China allows families to have 3 children in major policy shift
3 years, 9 months ago

China allows families to have 3 children in major policy shift

Al Jazeera  

The world’s most populous nation relaxes family planning policy after census showed its population is rapidly ageing. China has relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population was rapidly ageing, state media reported, in an attempt to boost the birth rate in the world’s most populous nation. “To actively respond …

China moves to end two-child limit, finishing decades of family planning
6 years, 6 months ago

China moves to end two-child limit, finishing decades of family planning

CNN  

CNN — The Chinese government could be moving to end birth restrictions, amid growing concerns over an aging population and a dropping birth rate. Under current family planning rules, the majority of Chinese couples are limited to two children, following an easing of the country’s notorious “one-child policy” in 2016. Video Ad Feedback The toils of China's one-child policy 00:56 …

China 'to scrap child limits altogether' in effort to boost its ageing population
6 years, 10 months ago

China 'to scrap child limits altogether' in effort to boost its ageing population

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Critics dispute that figure, saying China’s birth rate was …

Education improves for migrants' children
7 years, 9 months ago

Education improves for migrants' children

China Daily  

Huang Xiaoru is happy. In recent years, the Chinese government has urged public schools to simplify their qualification requirements and recruit as many children of migrant workers as possible to ensure the children get an education. "Ten years ago when we brought our eldest daughter here, she could not enter a public school, as we only had a rural household …

China unveils 10-year plan for youth development
7 years, 11 months ago

China unveils 10-year plan for youth development

China Daily  

China unveils 10-year plan for youth development Xinhua | Updated: 2017-04-14 07:16 BEIJING - Chinese central authorities released a detailed 10-year youth development plan Thursday, vowing better education, employment and healthcare for the nation's youth. The Middle- and Long-term Youth Development Plan sets a general goal of establishing a "youth development policy system and work mechanism" by 2020 and improving …

China unveils 10-year plan for youth development
7 years, 11 months ago

China unveils 10-year plan for youth development

China Daily  

China unveils 10-year plan for youth development Xinhua | Updated: 2017-04-14 07:16 BEIJING - Chinese central authorities released a detailed 10-year youth development plan Thursday, vowing better education, employment and healthcare for the nation's youth. The Middle- and Long-term Youth Development Plan sets a general goal of establishing a "youth development policy system and work mechanism" by 2020 and improving …

China unveils 10-year plan for youth development
7 years, 11 months ago

China unveils 10-year plan for youth development

China Daily  

China unveils 10-year plan for youth development Xinhua | Updated: 2017-04-14 07:16 Share Share - WeChat CLOSE BEIJING - Chinese central authorities released a detailed 10-year youth development plan Thursday, vowing better education, employment and healthcare for the nation's youth. The Middle- and Long-term Youth Development Plan sets a general goal of establishing a "youth development policy system and work …

Migrants' children face school issues
7 years, 11 months ago

Migrants' children face school issues

China Daily  

More should be done to remove educational barriers, expert says More than 2 million children of migrant workers are unable to enroll in public primary or junior schools in the cities where their parents live, according to a report. The Blue Book of Migrant Children, released on Tuesday by the Beijing-based 21st Century Education Research Institute, said that only 80 …

Migrants' children face school issues
7 years, 11 months ago

Migrants' children face school issues

China Daily  

More should be done to remove educational barriers, expert says More than 2 million children of migrant workers are unable to enroll in public primary or junior schools in the cities where their parents live, according to a report. The Blue Book of Migrant Children, released on Tuesday by the Beijing-based 21st Century Education Research Institute, said that only 80 …

China ditches one-child policy – and launches two-child policy
9 years, 2 months ago

China ditches one-child policy – and launches two-child policy

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy China has abandoned its controversial …

Ending China’s one-child policy: Too little too late?
9 years, 4 months ago

Ending China’s one-child policy: Too little too late?

Al Jazeera  

Beijing abandons its controversial policy after concerns about ageing population When Chinese leaders first introduced the one-child policy in 1979, the population of China was rapidly approaching one billion. Now China is facing a different crisis: a rapidly ageing population, increasing pressure on state pensions and potential labour shortages. What is often described as the largest population control experiment in …

China’s one-child policy ends: Too little, too late?
9 years, 4 months ago

China’s one-child policy ends: Too little, too late?

CNN  

Story highlights China announces that couples will be allowed to have two children However, many couples in China view a second child as too expensive China predicts it will have more than 400 million people over the age of 60 in 15 years CNN — For years, the typical on-screen Chinese family looked something The taglines drummed it home: “One …

China one-child policy to end
9 years, 4 months ago

China one-child policy to end

CNN  

Story highlights Amnesty International says China's new "one couple, two children" policy is not enough The policy" is "a proactive response to the issue of an aging population," state news says China instituted a policy of one child per couple to control population growth in the 1970s CNN — China will allow two children for every couple, the state-run Xinhua …

China to ease one-child policy by next year
11 years, 3 months ago

China to ease one-child policy by next year

Firstpost  

Changes to China’s strict one-child policy, which will allow more parents to have a second child, will begin to roll out early next year, state media said. Beijing: Changes to China’s strict one-child policy, which will allow more parents to have a second child, will begin to roll out early next year, state media said. Beijing said last month it …

China moves forward in bid to ease one-child policy
11 years, 3 months ago

China moves forward in bid to ease one-child policy

CNN  

Story highlights Couples will be allowed to have two children if one of the parents was an only child Previously both parents must be sole children to be eligible for a second child Revised policy expected to go into force in some provincial regions in first quarter of 2014 Hong Kong CNN — China’s plan to relax its controversial decades-long, …

Migrant children in Beijing to take gaokao
12 years, 2 months ago

Migrant children in Beijing to take gaokao

China Daily  

Migrant children in Beijing to take gaokao Updated: 2013-01-21 20:42 By Luo Wangshu The Beijing education authority will develop a detailed plan to allow migrant children to take the national college entrance exam, the gaokao, in the capital, according to the 2013 work plan from the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education released on Jan 21. According to the plan, the …

Policies in place to ensure equal rights to education
12 years, 2 months ago

Policies in place to ensure equal rights to education

China Daily  

A new education policy issued early this month has enabled the migrant worker Qin Lihong to make long-term plans for her family. Qin finally decided to settle in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, after living there for eight years because the provincial government now allows the children of migrant workers from other provinces, like her daughter, to take the college …

China’s one-child policy conundrum
12 years, 4 months ago

China’s one-child policy conundrum

Al Jazeera  

Amid a soaring population of elderly Chinese, new leadership in Beijing is expected to review the decades-old policy. Beijing, China – China’s fast-ageing population threatens a demographic disaster with too few young people to care for the elderly – a major problem that may lead to a review of the country’s contentious one-child policy. The China Development Research Foundation, a …

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