The population is aging, and low birth rates are a reality around the world. Also in China, where a measure was approved in May that has become a reality since Friday: Chinese families can already have three children.
This aging population has been modifying the laws for years. In 2016, families were allowed to have more than one child, and in 2021 the figure of three descendants has been reached. The population is aging, despite having more than 1,400 million inhabitants.
The new law that has been approved
China approved an amendment to the law on Friday that allows each couple to have three children and stipulates supportive measures for the new policy. The amendment to the Population and Family Planning Law it was approved in a session of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the country’s highest legislative body.
The abandonment of the one-child policy in 2016, to allow couples to have two children if they wanted, did not achieve the sustained increase in births sought by the country, and the authorities are trying to stop this trend with this new measure.
New measures for family conciliation
- Paid maternity leave of up to 98 days.
- Fiscal benefits.
- Aid for education and employment.
- You help parents who stop working to take care of their children under three years of age.
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Demographic data
For more than 40 years there has been the measure of the only child. With the change in 2016, births increased, but not to the extent that the country needed. The figures are beginning to be worrying. The rural population is very old and there are no resources to support the elderly in the future. Especially when Only children have been empowered and they do not think of two or three children, almost not one, according to the Xinhua News Agency, especially because of the current high cost of living.
– Those under 14 years old represent 17.95% of the current population. A decade ago, they were 19%.
-Since 2017, fewer Chinese babies have come to the world each year: 14 million in 2019, 12 million in 2020.
-The number of children per woman of childbearing age is 1.3. A figure similar to that of other industrialized countries, but below the 2.1 necessary to guarantee generational change.
The one-child policy, according to national authorities, prevented the birth of 400 million people, and also received numerous criticisms for their forced abortions and sterilizations, especially among women in the Communist Party who were urged to set an example.
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