China introduces three-child policy to alleviate problem of ageing population
China’s government has announced it is scrapping a policy limiting couples to two children and will now allow them to have three.
The change was approved during a Politburo meeting chaired by President Xi Jinping, according to official news agency Xinhua.
The government said the problem of an ageing populace was deepening and the change would help to improve the structure of China’s population and maintain its advantage in human resources.
The policy change will come with “supportive measures, which will be conducive to improving our country’s population structure, fulfilling the country’s strategy of actively coping with an ageing population and maintaining the advantage, endowment of human resources”, Xinhua said.
Among those measures, China will lower educational costs for families, step up tax and housing support, guarantee the legal interests of working women and clamp down on “sky-high” dowries, it said, without giving specifics. It would also look to educate young people “on marriage and love”.
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