According to the Chinese government website, the national teleconference on optimizing the birth policy was held in Beijing on July 27. Li Keqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, made important instructions. The instructions pointed out: The population issue is a fundamental, overall, and strategic issue related to the development of the Chinese nation. The implementation of the three-child policy and supporting measures is a major decision made by the Party Central Committee and the State Council in accordance with my country’s population development and changes, and is a major measure to promote long-term balanced population development and promote high-quality development. We must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adhere to the people-centered development ideology, and implement the three-child policy. Effectively improve the level of prenatal and postnatal care services, accelerate the construction of the inclusive childcare service system, promote the linking of relevant economic and social policies and childbirth policies, and reduce the burden of the people on childbirth, parenting, and education. It is necessary to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of family planning families, and establish and improve a comprehensive support and protection system for special family planning families. Governments at all levels and relevant departments must formulate specific implementation plans and supporting policies and measures, pay close attention to the implementation of work, and do a good job of benefiting the country and the people!
Sun Chunlan, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. She emphasized that it is necessary to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on population work, implement Premier Li Keqiang’s instructions, focus on the implementation of the three-child policy and supporting support measures, and improve the reproductive service system as the support to reduce marriages, childbirth, and childbirth. The cost of nurturing and education is to ensure that the ideology, policies, regulations, and institutional mechanisms that affect the long-term balanced development of the population are eliminated, and the birth policy and related economic and social policies are promoted in the same direction to ensure the smooth realization of the population development strategy goals.
Sun Chunlan pointed out that it is necessary to promptly promote the revision of relevant laws and regulations, clean up and abolish social support payments and other regulations, and strengthen policy adjustments and convergence. Accelerate the standardization of maternal and child health care institutions, expand the supply of maternal and child health resources, improve the ability to treat critically ill pregnant women and newborns, and improve the level of prenatal and postnatal care services. Improve the childcare service system, comprehensively utilize supporting policies such as planning, land, housing, and finance, develop inclusive childcare services, encourage employers and other social forces to provide various forms of childcare services, and the number of childcare services per 1,000 population will reach 4.5 by 2025 Piece. The study promotes the inclusion of the care costs of infants and children under the age of 3 into the special additional deductions for personal income tax, expands the supply of inclusive preschool education resources, promotes the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education and the integration of urban and rural areas, studies and implements preferential policies for differentiated leases and house purchases to reduce births, Upbringing and education costs. Guarantee the legitimate rights and interests of family planning families, respect the value of women’s reproduction, strictly implement maternity leave, breastfeeding leave and other systems, and safeguard women’s labor and social rights in accordance with the law.
(Source: Securities Daily)
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