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Senior Chinese demographers have called for local governments to strengthen their policies on supporting families, even if they only have one child, to boost fertility rates, as some local regions focused their policies on rewarding families with two or three children but ignored building a fertility-friendly society.
He Dan, director of the China Population and Development Research Center, published an article in the latest issue of the Population and Health, a journal sponsored by the center, and pointed out the importance of supporting one-child families.
“Demographics is destiny” is an old phrase attributed to the nineteenth-century French philosopher, mathematician and writer August Compte, often cons.
The number of marriages in China has hit a 36-year low with registrations of married couples dropped below eight million in 2021, the lowest since 1986, the latest official data revealed, adding to the concerns of the dwindling low birth rates and declining population which may touch negative growth