To turn around the falling birth rates, China needs "a combination of strong direct financial incentives," Xu said, particularly subsidies and benefits for housing.

China's population fell for a third consecutive year in 2024. Experts warn the decline could worsen as birth rates stay near ...

With only 30 per cent of Chinese women currently receiving pain relief during labour, China moves to close the gap and make ...

As authorities work to encourage young couples to marry and start a family, these incentives have become ... a result largely of China's one-child policy imposed between 1980 and 2015, rapid ...

China has announced that all tertiary-level hospitals across the country must provide epidural anaesthesia during childbirth by the end of 2025, in a bid to promote a “friendly childbearing ...

Over 30 years of China’s one-child policy ... targets to push women to fit IUDs after having their first child, now lack similar incentives to remove those devices in a timely manner ...

Married couples in Luliang are given 2,000 yuan for their first registered child ... China has plummeted in the past decade. — AFP The government released a report in October listing incentives ...

To turn around the falling birth rates, China needs "a combination of strong direct financial incentives," Xu said, particularly subsidies and benefits for housing.