The background and significance of the three-child policy

The three-child policy is a family planning policy implemented in China to actively cope with the aging population. It is conducive to improving China's population structure, implementing the national strategy of actively responding to population aging, and maintaining China's human resource endowment advantage.

2021May 3 1 day, China * * * held a meeting in the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. The meeting pointed out that further optimizing the birth policy and implementing the policy and supporting measures that a couple can have three children are conducive to improving China's population structure, implementing the national strategy of actively responding to population aging, and maintaining China's human resource endowment advantage. On August 20th, 20021,the the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) Conference voted to adopt the decision on amending the population and family planning law. The revised population and family planning law stipulates that the state advocates marriage and childbirth at the appropriate age, and a couple can have three children. The meeting made arrangements for actively responding to the aging population and adjusting the birth policy. Consider marriage, childbirth, parenting and education as a whole, strengthen the education and guidance of marriage and family values of marriageable young people, control bad social atmosphere such as bad marriage customs and sky-high bride price, improve the service level of prenatal and postnatal care, develop a universal care service system, promote education fairness and supply of quality education resources, and reduce family education expenditure.

It is necessary to improve the maternity leave and maternity insurance system, strengthen support policies such as taxation and housing, and protect women's legitimate rights and interests in employment. For the one-child families and rural family planning families with two daughters before the adjustment of the universal two-child policy, the existing reward and assistance system and preferential policies will continue to be implemented. It is necessary to establish and improve the all-round assistance and security system for family planning special families, improve the relief and care mechanism led by the government and participated by social organizations, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of family planning families. It is necessary to deepen the study of national medium-and long-term population development strategy and regional population development planning, and promote long-term balanced population development. The following decisions (eight aspects) are made on optimizing the birth policy, implementing the policy that a couple can have three children, canceling restrictive measures such as social support fees, cleaning up and abolishing relevant punishment regulations, and supporting the implementation of active birth support measures:

First, fully understand the significance of optimizing the birth policy and promoting the long-term balanced development of the population;

The second is the guiding ideology, main principles and objectives.

The third is to organize the implementation of the three-child birth policy;

Fourth, improve the service level of prenatal and postnatal care;

Fifth, develop a universal child care service system;

Sixth, reduce the cost of childbirth, childcare and education;

Seventh, strengthen the orderly connection of policy adjustment; Eighth, strengthen the organization and implementation guarantee.