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China Birthrate Short Essay - School Essays

China Birthrate Short Essay

Beijing: China's current low birth rate may not be sustained due to widening wealth gap and early marriages in rural areas and the world's most populous nation is facing risks of a "population rebound," a senior official has warned.

"Early marriages are still prevailing in some parts of the country, especially in rural areas, which goes against the family planning policy," Director of the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC), Zhang Weiqing has said.

China's constitution rules that men may marry at 22 and women at 20, while the country's family planning policy, which has been implemented since the 1970s, encourages late marriages and late childbearing, and limits ...

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and raised as only children, now in their twenties and thirties, are allowed to have a second child, which also contributed to the rising birth rate in some central and western provinces.

The NPFPC will continue to offer preferential services to couples following the family planning policy, Zhang said, adding the government's spending on family planning will be raised to 30 yuan (USD3.8) per person during the 11th five-year plan period (2006-2010).

China's family planning policy is credited with reducing the country's population by 400 million and delaying the present 1.3 billion population mark by four years.

Meanwhile, a Chinese health official has called for attention to risks facing rural women who dare not to seek professional maternity services because they are having more babies than the country's family planning policy allows.

"Some policy-breaking pregnant women, who dared not apply any financial aid of childbearing for fear of legal punishment, chose to ...

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Added: 5/5/2011 07:17:43 PM
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