China’s authorities wanted to change demographic policies. About it reports The Wall Street Journal.
In Beijing, plan to completely remove birth restrictions for the population by 2025. Among the reasons for changing the political course are the slowdown in economic development in the country and the distortion of population composition.
To date, the lowest birth rate is registered in China’s provincial regions, so innovations will first of all affect the residents of the countryside.
In May, the Chinese leader Xi Jinpin stated high-ranking party officials that the aging of China’s population threatens national security, the Wall Street Journal reports. He decided to adopt immediate action to solve this problem.
May 31 it became known that China’s authorities allowed local families to have three children. It is still unknown when the decision comes into force.
Now almost 1.4 billion people live in China. From 1979 to 2015, Beijing conducted a demographic policy “One family is one child.” In 2016, residents of the country were allowed to start no more than two children. The authorities have already thought that the fertility policy should be reconsidered, since at the beginning of the 2020th in China, the birth rate fell record. The number of working-age population has decreased, to which people refer from 16 to 59 years: for the year they have become less than 890 thousand people. At the same time, the population of the country will quickly old.