Chinese state media encouraged members of the Communist Party to have three children to help Beijing to solve the problem of a sharp falling fertility and aging of the population, reports The Guardian.
According to information, last week the attention of Internet users in China attracted the editorial article of the State News Portal China Reports Network, the authors of which stated that the members of the Communist Party are obliged to have three children for the sake of the country’s good. The article, which, after an ambiguous reaction of readers, was removed from the site, read that every member of the ruling party, which there are about 95 million, “should be responsible and obligations for the growth of the country’s population and act as part of the policy of three children.”
According to the population census of 2020, more than 18% of the inhabitants of the one hundred years older than 60 years. According to the data published by the National Statistical Bureau of the country in November, in 2020, the birth rate for 1 thousand people of China’s population fell below 10 and amounted to 8.5. In response to the crisis, the Chinese Communist Party adopted a number of measures, including the weakening of the long-established restrictions on the birth of children, reducing the costs associated with the formation and education of children, subsidies on the second and third child and 30 days of waiting for couple before designing the divorce.
However, Chinese couples are in no hurry to start three children. The main obstacles of young Chinese call the high cost of living and the duration of working time.