The measures include strengthening maternity and childcare services, increasing support measures for education, housing and employment, as well as actively building a “new culture of marriage and childbirth.”
At the beginning of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics said in ChinaChina’s total population will decline by 2.08 million people, or 0.15 percent, to 1.409 billion people in 2023.
The country with the largest population in the world faces,Demographic crisis With an aging workforce, a slowing economy and population growth at its lowest levels in decades.
Although the authorities put an end to the one-child policy in 2016 and then allowed each couple to have up to three children last year, the birth rate has continued to decline over the past five years.
The Chinese authorities had previously called on local governments to increase spending on… Reproductive health and improving child care services.
The birth rate in China fell last year to 7.52 births per thousand people, the lowest level since the country began keeping records in 1949, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
This is due in particular to the rise in the cost of living and the shift towards fewer families.