“We will develop a policy system to increase birth rates and a pre -emptive national strategy to confront the aging of the population,” Xi told about 2,300 delegates in a speech at the opening of the Communist Party conference, which is held once every five years in Beijing.
Despite China’s one billion population, population specialists claim that.
4 billion people, the greatest population in the world, are predicted to give birth to less than ten million children this year, down from 10.6 million children the previous year, which was a low amount. 10.5% was originally planned for 2020.
From 1980 to 2015, the government enforced a one-child policy, which was later changed to a three-child policy once it was realised that the population was set to peak.
It is significant that the Communist Party, which has been in power since Mao Zedong, will hold its twentieth summit this week, which will likely result in the party winning a third term in office.
In response to the population’s ageing, China aims to increase the birth rate.
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