In China, three- child policy has come out. That is to say, all couples are allowed to have up to three children.
A Chinese Communist Party statement gave a number of reasons for the change in policy. The statement said the change is meant to balance(平衡)population development. It said the move also tries to stop a declining(下降的)birth rate and strengthen the country's work force.
China's annual number of newborns has fallen for four years to around 12 million in 2020, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
The declining birthrate has also brought a sharp increase in the proportion of the population aged 60 or above, rising from 10. 3 percent to 18. 7 percent in the past decade(十年). The population of those 14 or younger dropped from about 23 percent to 18 percent during the same period.
China—the world's most populous country launched the one-child policy in 1980. It began relaxing its decades long family planning policy for urban couples in 2002 and carried out the two-child policy in 2016.
"After the second-child policy took effect, a large number of families wanted to have a second child but feared the difficulty in child-rearing(养育子女), " the National Health Commission said. Therefore, to carry out the three-child policy, China has planned to take some support measures to lower fertility and child-raising costs. Projects in the short term include setting up public community centers in 150 cities and adding 500, 000 public nursery care slots.
Huang Kuangshi, a researcher at the China Population and Development Research Center, said:
"The new policy will cater to(迎合)the demand of most couples to have more children, so the three-child policy is likely to remain for a relatively long time."
