More support urged to tackle falling fertility

Official calls for better childbearing sector, improved workplace benefits

China should redouble efforts to encourage the younger generation to marry and have children and roll out measures to encourage them to start families, to offset its falling fertility rate and shrinking family size, a senior official said on Saturday.

Wang Peian, deputy director of the China Family Planning Association, said that the downward trend in fertility and household size has become more prominent over the years.

Data shows that there were 2.62 people per family in China in 2020, a decrease of 0.48 from 2010.