China cities push 3-child policy with cash and leave

Push comes as Xi looks to boost birthrate amid demographic crisis

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The Chinese Communist Party announced in May that they would allow couples to have a third child, though few feel they could afford it. © Reuters

IORI KAWATE, Nikkei staff writer

BEIJING -- An extra month off and $80 monthly stipends and 30-day days of additional leave part of a series of sweetners local governments have unveiled as China kicks off the legislative process to allow married couples to have a third child in a drive to curb a precipitous decline in births.

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