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BlackRock Venture Launches First Pension Product in China
BlackRock’s majority-owned joint venture has launched a pension product as the world’s largest asset manager salivates over “business opportunities among the country’s growing aging population.”
国务院：设立3岁以下婴幼儿照护个人所得税专项附加扣除-36氪
The State Council recently established a special income tax deduction for the care of infants. Taxpayers caring for children under the age of three will get a deduction of 1,000 yuan ($157) per month per infant.
Union matchmakers a turn-off, say Chinese web users as birth rate debate heats up
No trade union matchmaking, say appalled Chinese netizens, after government officials proposed the idea at a brainstorming session aimed to boost China’s plunging birth rate. The plan, which called for “marriage committees” within trade unions to provide matchmaking services, sparked a wave of public backlash on Weibo.
China’s Family Planning Body Clarifies Its Abortion Intervention
China clarified its announcement on abortions, saying an earlier statement to “intervene” was intended to help teenagers avoid the risks and challenges associated with unplanned pregnancies. This follows a recent series of moves by authorities that have triggered speculation over the nation’s abortion policies, and whether they are aimed at boosting the country’s slowing birth rates.
China’s social networking platform Hongsong raises US$100 million in a Series A+ funding round | AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform
Beijing-based startup HongSong Online Technology, which operates a social media platform designed for the elderly, raised $100 million in funding from Bertelsmann Asia Investments, a division of the German multinational media conglomerate. By 2050, estimates suggest one-third of China’s population will be age 60 or older.
China’s Population Stalls With Births in 2021 the Lowest in Modern History
China’s soon-to-be-shrinking population: The number of births in China in 2021 was 10.62 million, down from 12.02 million in 2020, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. This “barely outnumbered the 10.14 million deaths” recorded last year, the Wall Street Journal notes, “suggesting the day may be near when China’s population starts to shrink.” See also charts and analysis in Caixin: China’s record low birthrate heightens long-term economic challenges.
China’s census accuracy faces reality check amid Covid-19 vaccinations, tests
Are COVID-19 testing and vaccine records more accurate than the census? China bluntly denied Financial Times reporting from April this year that the country’s 2020 census was set to show a population decline had already occurred. The actual census results, released in May, showed a population still growing, but at its slowest rate in six decades. At the South China Morning Post, Zhou Xin writes that two cases of COVID-19 mass testing and vaccine campaigns appear to show a smaller, and more accurate “permanent residents” number than the census for those local governments. Zhou writes that this lends “credence to a long-standing suspicion that local governments tend to over-report their populations in censuses by including people who no longer reside there, because certain government subsidies are allocated based on the number of local people.”
China Enshrines Three-Child Policy Into Law
Authorities are encouraging couples to have more children amid low birth rates and an aging population.
End of one-child policy in China linked to rise in birth anomalies
Following China’s switch to a two-child policy, there has been a slight rise in congenital anomalies, perhaps because parents are older on average at conception
What Should China Do about Its Aging Population?
Though it has yet to be released, China’s latest ten-year census is certain to confirm what demographers have warned of for years: A labor crisis looms as the fertility rate remains low and the
Xinjiang Hospitals Aborted, Killed Babies Outside Family Planning Limits: Uyghur Obstetrician
Sources say family-planning units terminated late-stage pregnancies and even killed newly born infants.
In “One Child Nation,” Nanfu Wang Confronts China’s History, and Her Own
The award-winning director, who was raised in a poor, two-child household in China, aimed to use film to dig deeper into her sense of the injustice permeating her world.
China’s population could start shrinking in 8 years
The warning comes from a prominent state-run think tank, three years after the one-child policy was officially abolished.
China Abandons One-Child Policy
The Communist Party will allow Chinese couples to have two children, ending a notorious 35-year-old limit on reproduction that has created myriad problems and threatened the country’s long-term economic health.
