Birth insurance services should be opened to Chinese college students, which could support young people who would like to bear a child during their university days better handle their studies, a Chinese political advisor suggested at this year’s two sessions.
By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) - Free college education and equal rights for unmarried women are among proposals being urged by members of China’s top political advisory body to boost the country s birth rate after its population fell last year for the first time in six decades. The proposals come ahead of the upcoming Chinese People s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which kicks off on March 4. The once-a-year gathering mostly overlaps with the National People s Congress (NPC), where a new leadership team under President Xi Jinping will be endorsed. China should remove restrictions on marital status used to register newborns, allowing unmarried women to enjoy fertility services like married women do, Xie Wenmin, a member of China s top political advisory body, told the state-backed Global Times this week. Current government rules dictate only married women are legally allowed to give birth but some provinces such as China s southwestern province of Sichuan started all
Free college education and equal rights for unmarried women are among proposals being urged by members of China s top political advisory body to boost the country s birth rate after its population
China could consider removing restrictions on marital status used for the registration of newborns, allowing unmarried women to enjoy services relating to fertility the same as married women, according to a proposal a Chinese political advisor plans to submit during this year s two sessions.