Delegates to China's parliament are urging the overhaul or even scrapping o...
SHANGHAI - Delegates to China’s parliament are urging the overhaul or even scrapping of controversial family planning rules and say radical steps are needed to “liberate fertility” and reverse a decline in births and a rapidly shrinking workforce.
In proposals submitted at the National People’s Congress, delegates from across the country urged leaders to improve healthcare and maternity benefits, offer tax breaks and provide more free public education. The estimated number of children each Chinese mother will have in their lifetime is 1.6, down from 5.18 in 1970. The global average is 2.45.
“China has set up a deadly demographic trap for itself, condemning itself to low or no growth for years to come, regardless of how many babies they can, using persuasion or compulsion, get young women to bear,” he said.Though proposals submitted by ordinary delegates have no legal status, they have symbolic significance and allow the discussion of matters not ordinarily aired in public. In theory, they will also be considered by policy-making committees.
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