On July 27, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency learned from the 98th chairperson meeting of the 13th National People’s Congress Standing Committee that the draft amendment to the Population and Family Planning Law will be submitted to the 30th meeting of the 13th National People’s Congress in August. Meeting deliberations.
In June of this year, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued a decision on optimizing childbirth policies to promote long-term balanced population development, clearly proposing to implement the three-child childbearing policy and supporting measures.
Li Keqiang:
Reduce the burden of the people on childbirth, nurturing and education
Implement the three-child policy
The National Teleconference on Optimizing Fertility 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.
Three-child support policy:
By 2025, the cost of childbirth, parenting, and education will be significantly reduced
On May 31 this year, the Politburo meeting of the CPC Central Committee pointed out that further optimizing the childbirth policy, implementing the policy that one couple can have three children and supporting supporting measures will help improve my country’s population structure, implement the national strategy to actively respond to population aging, and maintain Our country’s human resources endowment advantages.
On the evening of July 20, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the “Decision on Optimizing Fertility Policies to Promote Long-term and Balanced Population Development (June 26, 2021).” Decided to propose:
By 2025, the active childbirth support policy system will be basically established, the service management system will be basically complete, the level of prenatal and postnatal care services will be significantly improved, the construction of the inclusive childcare service system will be accelerated, the cost of childbirth, parenting, and education will be significantly reduced, the fertility level will be appropriately improved, and the birth population The sex ratio tends to be normal, the population structure is gradually optimized, and the population quality is further improved. By 2035, the policy and regulation system for promoting the long-term balanced development of the population will be more complete, the service management mechanism will operate efficiently, the fertility level will be more appropriate, and the population structure will be further improved.
Abolish social support fees, clean up and abolish relevant penalties. Completely decouple entry, enrollment, employment, etc. from the personal fertility status. Properly handle issues left over from history in accordance with laws and regulations. For areas where population development and economic, social, resource, and environmental conflicts are more prominent, strengthen publicity and advocacy, promote the effective connection of related welfare policies and fertility policies, and accurately perform various management services.
Amend the “Population and Family Planning Law of the People’s Republic of China”, promote marriage and childbirth of the right age, prenatal and postnatal care, and implement the three-child policy. All provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) comprehensively consider the population development situation, work foundation, and policy implementation risks in their regions, do a good job of policy linkage, and organize implementation in accordance with the law.
Population development is a major issue related to the development of the Chinese nation. This central decision conforms to the expectations of the masses and proposes the implementation of the three-child policy and supporting measures, including improving the level of prenatal and postnatal care services, developing a universal childcare service system, and reducing fertility and nurturing. , Education costs, and strive to alleviate the people’s worries about childbirth, promote the construction of a group of convenient and accessible, affordable, and quality-guaranteed childcare service institutions, support the development of pilot parental leave in places where conditions permit, and research and promote the promotion of children under 3 years of age. Child care expenses are included in the special additional deductions for personal income tax…
It was decided to introduce a package of measures, covering more than 40 aspects of prenatal and postnatal care, universal childcare, and lowering the cost of “three education”. Enrollment is completely decoupled from the personal fertility situation, exploring the establishment of a parent care leave system for only children, and providing comprehensive assistance to special family planning families.
A series of policies and measures centered on the people, taking marriage, childbirth, parenting, and education into consideration, striving to meet the diversified reproductive needs of the masses, promote harmony and happiness in the family, promote the realization of an appropriate fertility level, promote long-term balanced population development, and achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation The Chinese Dream provides a solid foundation and lasting motivation.
(Source: 21 Caiwenhui)
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