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China Prepares Nationwide Child Subsidies to Boost Falling Birthrate
- China is set to provide nationwide cash handouts of 3,600 yuan annually for each child born from January 1, 2025, until age three to boost birth rates.
- This initiative follows three consecutive years of population decline, a drop in marriage rates to their lowest in nearly 50 years, and concerns over a shrinking workforce.
- Local governments including Hohhot offer substantial subsidies such as 50,000 yuan for second children and extend maternity leave beyond 158 days to ease child-rearing costs.
- Demographer Li Jianmin emphasized addressing high child-rearing costs and income distribution rather than tax deductions alone, noting flexible work and stable employment improve family planning decisions.
- The payment scheme aims to counteract population decline trends and support families amid a rising elderly ratio forecast to reach 35 percent by 2050.
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From 2025 onwards, according to informed circles, parents should receive annual money for each child up to the age of three. Officially, it has not yet been confirmed.
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Childbearing and child-rearing supporting system set up in China, with maternity leave extended to 158 days or longer
China has established a childbearing and child-rearing supporting system, with a number of policies rolled out in localities across the country, including extending maternity leave to 158 days or longer, raising childbirth allowance and child-rearing subsidies, and providing more professional and affordable babysitter services at childcare institutions, Central China Television reported on Thursday, the 35th World Population Day, citing official…
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