Before the low birth rate registered in recent years China launch a campaign to encourage marriage and it is that despite the fact that since 2021 it already allows having a third child, the response has been welcomed with great enthusiasm by the population.
This beginning of the week, the official Chinese Family Planning Association announced the launch of a campaign in various cities to “encourage marriage and procreation at appropriate ages.
According to what has been revealed, the association, managed by the central government, will have among its tasks “to encourage parents to share the responsibilities of the breeding” and the brake on “obsolete customs” such as the high price of marriage dowries, a practice that still exists in some areas of the country.
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According to a publication in the local newspaper Global Times, the campaign will take place in 20 cities in the Asian country, which are expected to “adopt innovative measures to create an environment favorable to motherhood.”
As we have mentioned in other informative notes of The Truth NewsChina, despite having been the most populous country in the world for more than 100 years, India, with a younger population, snatched the title. India is estimated to surpass China by 2.9 million people by mid-2023.
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According to the announced project, some towns such as Chengdu (center) or Zhengzhou (center) announced that next May 20, a date considered auspicious for pronouncing it in Chinese in a similar way to “I love you”, they will accept marriage registrations despite falling this year on Saturday.
In 2022, China experienced an official decrease of 850,000 inhabitants and closed the year with 1,411.75 million, in contrast to the 1,412.6 million registered at the end of 2021.
With information from EFE
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