China Considers Lifting All Childbirth Restrictions Via 2025

 

Chinese officials are drawing up plans to in addition loosen birth restrictions and transition towards policies that explicitly motivate childbirth, in accordance to people acquainted with the matter, reflecting increased urgency in Beijing as economic growth slows and China’s populace combine skews older.

Policy makers are discussing the possibility of totally doing away with birth restrictions via 2025, the end of the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s current five-year economic plan, in accordance to one of the people. According to that person, China will likely commence by getting rid of birth restrictions in provinces where the birthrate is the lowest before enacting nationwide changes.

The party stated late last month that it would permit all couples to have as many as three children, weeks after a once-in-a-decade census showed China, the world’s most populous nation, on the cusp of a historic downturn in its population.

Last month, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told senior party officials that he regards China’s aging populace as a threat to national security, calling on senior officials to tackle the challenge, in accordance to the state-run Xinhua News Agency.

Any loosening of restrictions would probable be seen first in China’s economically depressed northeast, a region that the country’s health authorities hinted in February could take the lead in scrapping all remaining birth restrictions.