China Relaxes Family Planning Policy, Allows Couples to Have 3 Children
3 years, 7 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 to a record low of 12 million in 2020, the National Bureau of Statistics said last month. “To actively respond to the ageing of the population … a couple can have three children,” Xinhua said, citing a Monday meeting of China’s elite Politburo leadership committee hosted by President Xi. The once-in-a-decade 2020 census results published last month also showed that China’s population grew at its slowest rate since the 1960s, reaching 1.41 billion.

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Only one child under 14 by...: Expert's big warning on Japan's demographic trend
2 days, 20 hours ago

Only one child under 14 by...: Expert's big warning on Japan's demographic trend

India Today  

Japan’s declining birthrate has reached critical levels, with a leading demographic expert now warning that, if the trend continues, the country could have only one child under the age of 14 by January 5, 2720 -- just 695 years from now. Professor Hiroshi Yoshida of Tohoku University has developed a real-time population clock to raise awareness about this issue, highlighting …

2024 policies signal a promising future for children
3 weeks, 2 days 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
Trending News
3 weeks, 2 days 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 …

How to ensure fertility support policies yield desired results
1 month ago

How to ensure fertility support policies yield desired results

China Daily  

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 …

Report digs into Beijing's population
1 month ago

Report digs into Beijing's population

China Daily  

Insights gleaned into capital's shifts, growth and characteristics of residents In its latest population report, Beijing has shared critical insights into the demographic landscape of China's capital, highlighting both challenges and opportunities as the city navigates its future. It identifies seven key characteristics of population development in Beijing, including stable resident population size, increased urbanization, a narrowing income gap between …

How to ensure fertility support policies yield desired results
1 month ago

How to ensure fertility support policies yield desired results

China Daily  

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 …

How to ensure fertility support policies yield desired results
Trending News
1 month ago

How to ensure fertility support policies yield desired results

China Daily  

The number and structure of people of marriageable age, including women of childbearing age, in China have undergone comprehensive changes. 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 …

Report digs into Beijing's population
Trending News
1 month ago

Report digs into Beijing's population

China Daily  

In its latest population report, Beijing has shared critical insights into the demographic landscape of China's capital, highlighting both challenges and opportunities as the city navigates its future. It identifies seven key characteristics of population development in Beijing, including stable resident population size, increased urbanization, a narrowing income gap between urban and rural residents, and a dual challenge of declining …

Natural population growth rate lagging, NBS says
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Natural population growth rate lagging, NBS says

China Daily  

Amid efforts to boost the nation's birth rate, the China Statistical Yearbook 2024 recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics said only eight provincial-level regions recorded a positive natural population growth rate last year. According to the yearbook, the top three regions in terms of natural population growth rates last year were the Xizang autonomous region, the Ningxia Hui …

Broad-based system needed to boost fertility
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Broad-based system needed to boost fertility

China Daily  

Medical staff at the People's Hospital of Yuping county, Tongren city, Guizhou province, care for newborns on Jan 2, 2024. China's health minister has highlighted the establishment of a childbirth subsidy system, the expansion of childcare services and ensuring the implementation of maternity leave as key steps to building a birth-friendly society and tackling China's demographic challenges. The nation's total …

Broad-based system needed to boost fertility
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Broad-based system needed to boost fertility

China Daily  

Medical staff at the People's Hospital of Yuping county, Tongren city, Guizhou province, care for newborns on Jan 2, 2024. China's health minister has highlighted the establishment of a childbirth subsidy system, the expansion of childcare services and ensuring the implementation of maternity leave as key steps to building a birth-friendly society and tackling China's demographic challenges. The nation's total …

Chinese government is calling women, asking when their last period was, and urging them to get pregnant
2 months, 1 week ago

Chinese government is calling women, asking when their last period was, and urging them to get pregnant

The Independent  

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China Embraces Multipronged Approach to Build Birth-Friendly Society
2 months, 1 week 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
2 months, 1 week 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
2 months, 1 week ago

Thousands of kindergartens closed across China as birth rate declines sharply

The Independent  

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China to create TV shows and films that promote ‘childbearing culture’
2 months, 1 week ago

China to create TV shows and films that promote ‘childbearing culture’

The Telegraph  

Beijing enforced a “one-child” policy until 2015 that limited couples to just one offspring. However, the longstanding one-child policy left a deep impression on China’s culture that has been difficult to shake, and birth rates have remained depressed. China’s birth rate fell to a record low in 2023 and the population shrunk for the second year in a row. UN …

China is worried its people ‘fear having children’ and is launching massive survey to find out why
2 months, 3 weeks ago

China is worried its people ‘fear having children’ and is launching massive survey to find out why

The Independent  

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China announces new retirement ages, plans to foster 'new culture of marriage and child-bearing'
3 months, 4 weeks ago

China announces new retirement ages, plans to foster 'new culture of marriage and child-bearing'

ABC  

China's government has confirmed it will soon begin raising the country's retirement age, which is currently among the youngest in the world's major economies. Beijing takes first steps to raise China's retirement age Photo shows elderly people dance outside In response to an aging population and growing pressure on pensions, the Chinese Communist Party plans to raise the statutory retirement …

Experts remind recent rise in new births temporary
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Experts remind recent rise in new births temporary

China Daily  

A newborn baby, whose Chinese zodiac sign is dragon, is seen with the mother at a hospital in Shijiazhuang, North China's Hebei province, Feb 10, 2024. In Guangdong province, the number of births rose by 1.4 percent year-on-year during the first six months, according to Liu Fenghua, deputy head of Guangdong Women and Children Hospital. In Qingdao, Shandong province, the …

Population decline won't hold China back
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Population decline won't hold China back

China Daily  

CAI MENG/CHINA DAILY In recent years, a narrative of demographic doom has descended over China. China's shrinking total population and rising graying demographic pose numerous policy challenges that need to be addressed on an urgent basis, as policymakers grapple with issues ranging from falling fertility rates to decisions by many young couples to forgo the skyrocketing expense of raising children, …

Explainer: China to improve systems for supporting high-quality population development
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Explainer: China to improve systems for supporting high-quality population development

China Daily  

LI MIN/CHINA DAILY BEIJING -- China is set to refine its population development strategy in response to an aging population and declining birth rate, as part of broader reform efforts aimed at ensuring and enhancing people's wellbeing during the course of development. China's population development faces challenges from a declining birth rate, an aging population, and regional population disparities. According …

Explainer: China to improve systems for supporting high-quality population development
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Explainer: China to improve systems for supporting high-quality population development

China Daily  

LI MIN/CHINA DAILY BEIJING -- China is set to refine its population development strategy in response to an aging population and declining birth rate, as part of broader reform efforts aimed at ensuring and enhancing people's wellbeing during the course of development. China's population development faces challenges from a declining birth rate, an aging population, and regional population disparities. According …

New demographic normal beyond 'old' challenges
5 months, 1 week ago

New demographic normal beyond 'old' challenges

China Daily  

JIN DING/CHINA DAILY The development experiences of different countries at different times show that the relationship between population development and socioeconomic development can be mutually reinforcing and mutually constraining. Besides, to realize Chinese modernization, the country has to first address the new demographic challenges and achieve high-quality population development. Based on China's modernization goals and demographic challenges, the essence and …

New demographic normal beyond 'old' challenges
5 months, 1 week ago

New demographic normal beyond 'old' challenges

China Daily  

JIN DING/CHINA DAILY The development experiences of different countries at different times show that the relationship between population development and socioeconomic development can be mutually reinforcing and mutually constraining. Besides, to realize Chinese modernization, the country has to first address the new demographic challenges and achieve high-quality population development. Based on China's modernization goals and demographic challenges, the essence and …

China’s low-fertility trap
5 months, 4 weeks ago

China’s low-fertility trap

Live Mint  

A SMALL NUMBER should haunt the sleep of China’s leaders: 1.1. Even after controlling for education and degrees of social contact with China’s dominant Han majority, many ethnic groups stand out for wanting larger families. Intrigued, Chaguan headed to Guizhou, a province in China’s south-west with many minorities and the highest birth rates of any region outside Tibet. Faced with …

Falling births trigger calls for reallocating preschool resources
9 months ago

Falling births trigger calls for reallocating preschool resources

China Daily  

Children exercise with basketballs at a kindergarten in Tongren, Guizhou province, on April 1. There were 274,400 kindergartens in China last year, with 40.93 million children enrolled, the Ministry of Education said at a news conference last month. The number of preschool children last year dropped 5.35 million from 2022 and has seen a decrease for three consecutive years, according …

Fertility experts examine reasons for falling births
10 months, 1 week ago

Fertility experts examine reasons for falling births

China Daily  

A nurse demonstrates the proper handling of newborns for parents-to-be on Aug 7 at Huai'an Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital in Jiangsu province. Zhu Ru, an experienced obstetrician and artificial reproductive technology expert in Anqing, Anhui province, has witnessed firsthand China's shrinking birthrate. Others suffer from ovulation disorders due to obesity or excessive weight loss," Zhu told China Daily after …

Time needed for incentives to boost fertility: Expert
11 months ago

Time needed for incentives to boost fertility: Expert

China Daily  

The makeover of a sculpture of a typical Chinese family at a park in Wuhan, Hubei province, soared to the top of microblogging platform Sina Weibo's trending list at the beginning of this year, generating 39 million views. This family sculpture mirrors China's efforts in recent years to encourage births, improve the national demographic structure and tackle population aging. On …

How China lost the plot on population
11 months, 3 weeks 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’s population dip is a global concern
11 months, 3 weeks ago

China’s population dip is a global concern

Hindustan Times  

China’s population fell by 2.08 million in 2023, a decline for the second straight year, the country’s National Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday. Add the decline of 850,000 in 2022, and it means that the population of the world’s second most populous nation has declined by nearly three million in two years. Given that China’s elderly population, aged 60 and …

China’s population falls by 2 million as birth rate hits new low
11 months, 3 weeks ago

China’s population falls by 2 million as birth rate hits new low

The Independent  

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China’s Population Decline Accelerated Last Year
11 months, 3 weeks ago

China’s Population Decline Accelerated Last Year

Live Mint  

China’s population decline accelerated last year, worsening a demographic gloom that has taken on increasing urgency for Beijing. China ended 2023 with 1.410 billion people, the National Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday, down from 1.412 billion in 2022, when it hit a historic turning point: the first year the population shrank since starvation years in the early 1960s. Another possible …

China's population declines for 2nd year in a row, and so has its workforce; surge seen in elderly people
11 months, 3 weeks ago

China's population declines for 2nd year in a row, and so has its workforce; surge seen in elderly people

Hindustan Times  

China has reported a downward trend in its population growth for the second consecutive time in 2023, giving rise to its deepening demographic challenge, which is likely to burden its economy – the second largest in the world. The birth rate saw a record drop of 6.39 births per 1,000 people from 6.77 a year earlier. According to China's National …

China’s population falls for a 2nd straight year as births drop even after end of one-child policy
11 months, 3 weeks ago

China’s population falls for a 2nd straight year as births drop even after end of one-child policy

Associated Press  

BEIJING — China’s population fell by 2 million people in 2023 in its second straight annual decrease, as births dropped for the seventh straight year and deaths jumped following the end of COVID-19 restrictions, the government said Wednesday. The lower fertility rate, together with people living longer because of better health care, means China is slowly growing older, something that …

China’s population falls for a second year in a row as COVID restrictions end
11 months, 3 weeks ago

China’s population falls for a second year in a row as COVID restrictions end

LA Times  

China’s population dropped in 2023 by 2 million people — the second consecutive annual drop as births fell and deaths increased after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, the government said Wednesday. President Xi Jinping told the new leadership of the All-China Women’s Federation in October that young people need stronger guidance on marriage, parenthood and family, including policies that support …

China: Economic decline, COVID-19 may have reduced population in 2023
1 year ago

China: Economic decline, COVID-19 may have reduced population in 2023

Firstpost  

After the country abruptly ended severe lockdowns, there was likely a spike in COVID-related deaths in 2023, which caused China’s population to decline for a second consecutive year. Since Beijing abruptly lifted prohibitions in December 2022, the COVID-19 virus spread throughout China’s 1.41 billion people early last year, and demographers predict a substantial increase in the country’s death toll. The …

World’s population has passed 8 billion, says US Census Bureau
1 year, 2 months ago

World’s population has passed 8 billion, says US Census Bureau

The Independent  

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Feeling crowded yet? The US Census Bureau estimates the world’s population has passed 8 billion
1 year, 2 months ago

Feeling crowded yet? The US Census Bureau estimates the world’s population has passed 8 billion

Associated Press  

The human species has topped 8 billion, with longer lifespans offsetting fewer births, but world population growth continues a long-term trend of slowing down, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday. While world population growth remains brisk, growing from 6 billion to 8 billion since the turn of the millennium, the rate has slowed since doubling between 1960 and 2000. Fertility …

Record numbers of parents in Japan say they will stop having children amid financial struggles
1 year, 2 months ago

Record numbers of parents in Japan say they will stop having children amid financial struggles

The Independent  

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China Launches Population Survey to Address Alarming Birth Rate Decline
1 year, 2 months ago

China Launches Population Survey to Address Alarming Birth Rate Decline

News 18  

China will begin polling 1.4 billion people on Wednesday in a survey on population changes, as authorities struggle to incentivise people to have more children amid a declining birth rate and the first population drop in more than six decades. China last conducted its once-in-a-decade census in November 2020 which showed it grew at the slowest pace since the first …

In Japan, a third of today's 18-year-old women may not have children: Study
1 year, 4 months ago

In Japan, a third of today's 18-year-old women may not have children: Study

The Hindu  

About a third of 18-year-old women in Japan may never have children, a government institute said on Wednesday, in the latest data spelling an uphill battle to reverse a dwindling population in the world's third-largest economy. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in June promised to tackle the population crisis with "unprecedented" measures including bigger payouts for families with three or more …

China's Fertility Rate Hits Record Low as Concerns Grow Over Population Decline
1 year, 4 months ago

China's Fertility Rate Hits Record Low as Concerns Grow Over Population Decline

News 18  

China’s fertility rate is estimated to have dropped to a record low of 1.09 in 2022, the National Business Daily said on Tuesday, a figure likely to rattle authorities as they try to boost the country’s declining number of new births. The state-backed Daily said the figure from China’s Population and Development Research Center put it as having the lowest …

China needs to build marriage-friendly society
1 year, 5 months ago

China needs to build marriage-friendly society

China Daily  

A family pose for a photo at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing. The declining marriage and fertility rates in China have become issues of greater concern in recent times due to negative population growth, a shrinking workforce and a fast rising aging population. China's demographic trend is one of "low marriage rate, even lower fertility rates …

Thinking beyond new births for a sustainable future
1 year, 5 months ago

Thinking beyond new births for a sustainable future

China Daily  

A nurse takes care of a newborn baby at Gansu Provincial Maternity and Childcare Hospital in Lanzhou. Since China has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, the issue has attracted global attention over the past year, which has fed into two huge news stories: China's population is declining, and India has "overtaken" China in terms of total …

Thinking beyond new births for a sustainable future
1 year, 5 months ago

Thinking beyond new births for a sustainable future

China Daily  

A nurse takes care of a newborn baby at Gansu Provincial Maternity and Childcare Hospital in Lanzhou. Since China has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, the issue has attracted global attention over the past year, which has fed into two huge news stories: China's population is declining, and India has "overtaken" China in terms of total …

China needs to build marriage-friendly society
1 year, 5 months ago

China needs to build marriage-friendly society

China Daily  

A family pose for a photo at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing. The declining marriage and fertility rates in China have become issues of greater concern in recent times due to negative population growth, a shrinking workforce and a fast rising aging population. China's demographic trend is one of "low marriage rate, even lower fertility rates …

Marriage in China: More young people reject tying the knot
1 year, 6 months ago

Marriage in China: More young people reject tying the knot

Hindustan Times  

For 29-year-old Jingyi Hou, a schoolteacher in China's northern Shanxi province, marriage is not a priority. According to a report published by China's Ministry of Civil Affairs in June 2023, the number of marriage registrations across the country was the lowest in 37 years, following eight years of decline. Ye Liu, a senior lecturer at the Lau China Institute at …

China's biggest online travel agency to pay employees 1 bn yuan to have kids as population rapidly ages, birth rate fall
1 year, 6 months ago

China's biggest online travel agency to pay employees 1 bn yuan to have kids as population rapidly ages, birth rate fall

Firstpost  

Many Chinese women are reluctant to have more than one or even any children due to the high costs of child-rearing and as the lack of childcare means becoming a parent often entails giving up a career. As China is struggling with an ageing population and low birth rate, the country’s biggest online travel agency Trip.com Group announced on Friday …

Firm course charted for modernization
1 year, 6 months ago

Firm course charted for modernization

China Daily  

More workers Considering factors such as continuously rising education levels and the migration of unemployed rural workers to urban areas with improved production efficiency, Zhang said that size of the new labor force in China each year would continue to rise through 2036. Zhang said, "There is no doubt that China's fertility rate is at a relatively low level, but …

Firm course charted for modernization
1 year, 6 months ago

Firm course charted for modernization

China Daily  

Fresh model to counter low birthrate, aging population China's new demographic development model, which prioritizes improving the overall quality of people's lives and the workforce, will help propel modernization, officials and experts said. At the first meeting of the 20th Communist Party of China Central Committee's Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs early last month, President Xi Jinping stressed that …

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