A Chinese health official has urged local governments to take ‘bold’ steps to lower the cost of having babies and raising children to reduce the burden on families and boost fertility, a state-backed publication reported
Yang said that worries about money and career development among women were the main factors for people opting not to have babies, adding that precise policies were needed to improve the fertility level.
Yang's comments were published in the latest issue of NHC-managed magazine, Population and Health, the Paper said. China's National Bureau of Statistics reported a drop of some 850,000 people for a population of 1.41175 billion in 2022, the first decline since 1961, the last year of China's Great Famine.
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