China on Monday announced to further lift its family planning policy to allow each couple to have up to three children after the number of the country s newborns declined for four years straight, a major policy shift from the current two-child policy. Chinese demographers believed the new move was not simply a birth stimulation plan, but a significant step leading to more policy changes in improving China s demographic structure and actively responding to the aging trend.
Inspired by inclusive family planning policy, young Chinese expect a fertility-friendly society
By Li Qiao and Huang Lanlan Source: Global Times Published: 2020/12/15 21:43:40
Parents holding their children play in the square of a residential community in Nanjing, capital of East China s Jiangsu Province. Photo: VCG
After having two daughters, 43-year-old father Yu Zhongquan in Dalian, Northeast China s Liaoning Province, welcomed his third son in July.
It is just better to have both girls and boys in my family, he told the Global Times, emphasizing that he loves his daughters very much. Our family s economic condition can support more children. Although breaking the second-child policy, my wife and I also wanted a third kid, so we have him, Yu said.