The government has also vowed to make infertility treatment more widely available to married women.
, officials plan to offer incentives to encourage family growth, including expanding access to child-care services, reducing the cost of attending nursery school and working with employers to make offices more “family friendly.”
The government has also vowed to make infertility treatment more widely available to married women, by including reproductive technology in the country’s national medical system. In China, single women are not allowed to freeze their eggs and undergo in vitro fertilization, and are routinely denied care and services available to married women.
Low birthrates in China have led to the inevitable: a growing elderly portion of the population. Demographic data collected by the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs shows that the country is expected to shrink in 2025. The Tuesday proposal would enhance and provide women with a “positive childbearing support system” and improve services to promote a “long-term” and “balanced” growth in the country’s population.This is not the first time China has introduced incentives for couples to have children.
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