PoliticsChina cities push 3-child policy with cash and leave
Push comes as Xi looks to boost birthrate amid demographic crisis
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
August 18, 2021 03:29 JST
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.