As China’s population continues its steady decline, experts have offered several suggestions for how to arrest the slide – but nearly all agree a cautious and systematic approach carries the best chances for success.
Policies to encourage couples to have children will have a limited impact, especially now that small family sizes are the norm. Instead, Beijing should take steps to improve education and skills training, reform the healthcare system and create the conditions for healthy living.
A total of 16 medical services using assisted reproductive technologies will be covered by Beijing’s state insurance from next month after China’s birth rate dropped to a record low in 2021.
For China to welcome more babies, it must reflect on toll of one-child policy
Beijing must reflect on the traumatic effects of the draconian one-child policy if it wants its new population plan to bear fruit
The government should do away with extreme punishments if couples have more than three children – or better yet, abolish having child limits altogether