BEIJING - Chongqing native Chen Qiuxia has no plans of having children. Read more at straitstimes.com.
With education costs another pressing issue for parents, a delegate from Sichuan proposed providing free education for third children.to reverse a demographic decline that was the result of a decades-long One Child Policy.
It resulted in a vastly lopsided population that has been described by sociologists as “too male and too old”. During the last census in 2010, the fertility rate was 1.13, China’s lowest level ever, and in the decade since, it has increased only slightly to 1.3, he added. “When my husband and I found out that I was pregnant, it was at the height of the Covid-19 outbreak last autumn, and we did wonder if we wanted to bring another child into a world that is like that,” said the 38-year-old. “And then it was about cost.
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