{"id":971529,"date":"2021-11-05T09:58:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T13:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=971529"},"modified":"2021-11-05T09:58:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T13:58:43","slug":"birth-rate-collapse-china-province-proposes-nearly-one-year-paid-maternity-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/birth-rate-collapse-china-province-proposes-nearly-one-year-paid-maternity-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth Rate Collapse: China Province Proposes Nearly One Year Paid Maternity Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbirth-rate-collapse-china-province-proposes-nearly-one-year-paid-maternity-leave%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=971529&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/nurses-newborn-babies-china-getty-photo.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">China\u2019s northwestern province of Shaanxi has outlined a proposal to allow residents nearly one year of paid maternity leave, Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/babies-wanted-chinese-province-may-offer-year-maternity-leave-2021-11-03\/\">reported<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShaanxi is seeking public opinion on allowing an additional half a year of maternity leave on top of the current 168 days,\u201d Reuters revealed on November 3.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The landlocked province \u201cis also considering doubling the length of paternity leave to 30 days for couples looking to have a third child,\u201d according to the international news agency.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s government announced new guidelines in May allowing married couples to have up to three children. The edict came in response to China\u2019s latest census data, which showed a drastic decline in the national birth rate.<\/p>\n<p>China recorded 12 million births in 2020, a figure \u201csharply down from 14.65 million in 2019 and the lowest since 1961,\u201d Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/china-2020-census-shows-slowest-population-growth-since-1-child-policy-2021-05-11\/\">reported<\/a> on May 11, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stats.gov.cn\/english\/PressRelease\/202105\/t20210510_1817185.html\">citing<\/a> China\u2019s then-newly released 2020 census data.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>China\u2019s ruling Communist Party caused the nation\u2019s birth rate to decline by enforcing a \u201cone-child\u201d policy nationwide for decades starting in the late 1970s. The federal government limited the size of Chinese families in an effort to curb China\u2019s then-mushrooming population. The policy was eased to allow two children per couple in 2016 before expanding to three children earlier this year. The allowances for larger families were made after China\u2019s fertility rate dropped in 2020 to just 1.3 children per woman.<\/p>\n<p>The province of Heilongjiang, which neighbors Russia, \u201ceven allows couples in border cities to have four children, due to the below-average birth rate in China\u2019s remote northeastern region,\u201d Reuters noted on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government says it plans to offer new benefits to parents in an effort to support its new three-child policy.<\/p>\n<p>At least 14 provinces, including Shaanxi, \u201chave either amended local family planning rules or are seeking public opinion to make amendments to laws to confer extra maternity or paternity leave\u201d since May, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Some Chinese provinces have proposed a new form of parental leave called \u201cchild-raising leave.\u201d The paid time off is meant for couples with children age 3 or younger, Chinese state media reported on November 3. China\u2019s southern island province of Hainan now offers one hour of \u201cchild-raising leave\u201d per day to each parent with a child under the age of 3.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s State Council, or top administrative authority, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixthtone.com\/news\/1007712\/china-mulls-longer-parental-leave-to-encourage-more-births\">announced<\/a> new policies on June 9 to \u201csupport families while providing extended child care leave,\u201d Sixth Tone reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is required to fully implement the maternity leave system such as maternity leave and relevant regulations on breastfeeding time, and encourage regions with conditions to explore and carry out trials of parental leave,\u201d the council <a href=\"http:\/\/epaper.ynet.com\/html\/2021-06\/09\/content_376783.htm?div=-1\">said<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s northwestern province of Shaanxi has outlined a proposal to allow residents nearly one year of paid maternity leave, Reuters reported Wednesday. \u201cShaanxi is seeking public opinion on allowing an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}