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Measures help young couples expand families
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WEI XUEMING/FOR CHINA DAILY
Officials roll out incentives as part of efforts to lift dwindling fertility rates in the nation
When China allowed all couples to have a third child on May 31 in response to the nation s flagging fertility rates, that turned out to be just the start of its efforts.
About two months later, authorities followed up with a combination of rules incentivizing young couples to expand families.
The rules mainly target rising education costs, a shortage of day care services and gender discrimination in the workplace.
Such issues have come under growing public scrutiny in recent years for chipping away at the appeal for working couples to have babies.
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China has adopted a decision that allows couples to have three children, together with a slew of supporting measures for its implementation, with the aim of optimizing the country s demographic structure and achieving long-term and balanced population development.
The decision lays out supporting measures in three areas: strengthening child nursery services, reducing the cost of childbearing and improving prenatal and postnatal services.
At a press conference on Wednesday, Yu Xuejun, deputy head of the National Health Commission (NHC), said the decision is more than just an improvement of the two-child birth policy. These supporting measures focus on public concerns, integrate birth with marriage, bringing-up and education, and can help unleash the birth potential, he said.
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