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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

this quiet city in central China started offering serious cash incentives for couples to have more children, up to around $13,000 for a second child and $23,000 for a third. Births surged 17% for ...

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