China faces strains as population ages, birth rate falls

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The ruling party in China is easing official limits on the number of children each couple can have, hoping to counter the rapid aging of Chinese society. But the number of births is falling.

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BEIJING -- Yue Yan is glad to have two daughters but sees why, even with the ruling Communist Party urging them to have more children, fewer Chinese women give birth at all.

On Monday, the ruling party announced it would ease birth restrictions to let all couples have three children instead of two. But its track record suggests rule changes on their own do little to change long-term trends. "The aging of the Chinese population grows faster than we expected," said Yi Fuxian, a senior scientist in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.The 12 million births reported last year were down nearly one-fifth from 2019. About 40% were second children, down from 50% in 2017, according to Ning Jizhe, a statistics official who announced the figures on May 11.

A growing number of retirees, even with children, live alone because sons and daughters have left home for work. Ruling party leaders meeting Monday agreed to raise the retirement age, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, without giving details.

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