Guwahati News Desk: China approved of the three-child policy with sops to encourage couples to have more children.
With the aim to prevent the steep decline in birth rates in the world’s most populous country, China’s national legislature on Friday formally endorsed the three-child policy mooted by the ruling Communist Party.
The “three-children” law was passed by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC).
The revised Population and Family Planning Law, will be allowing the Chinese couples to have three children.
Moreover, the amended law has also passed more social and economic support measures to address the concerns, for all the Chinese couples who were reluctant to have more children due to the mounting costs.
The new law stipulates that the country will be taking supportive measures, including those in finances, taxes, insurance, education, housing and employment, to reduce families’ burdens as well as the cost of raising and educating children.
The NPC has revised the law to implement the central leadership’s decision to cope with new circumstances in social and economic development and promote balanced long-term population growth.
Furthermore, the decision to permit the third child came after this month’s once-in-a-decade census showed that China’s population grew at the slowest pace to 1.412 billion, and also because the declining trend prompted Chinese demographers to predict that India’s population may overtake China’s earlier than the UN projection of 2027, to take the top spot as the most populous country in the world.
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