{"id":872488,"date":"2026-08-29T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872488\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:14:12","slug":"china-needs-600-child-subsidy-rise-to-prevent-deeper-birth-crisis-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872488\/","title":{"rendered":"China needs 600% child subsidy rise to prevent deeper birth crisis: scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Beijing should drastically raise its nationwide childcare subsidies to stave off a deepening birth crisis, according to Chinese scholars, who warned the country\u2019s fertility rate could soon fall to the lowest in the world unless action was taken.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The government should learn from the examples of Singapore and South Korea \u2013 two nearby countries facing similarly severe demographic challenges, which have both introduced enhanced pronatalist policies to turn around the situation, they added.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3322814\/chinas-new-child-subsidy-popular-will-it-actually-raise-birth-rate?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">introduced a nationwide childcare subsidy<\/a> last year that offers households a total of 10,800 yuan (US$1,600) per child, but the scholars said far higher payments would be needed to make people more willing to have more children.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">James Liang, a business leader and demographer, has called for a subsidy package worth 62,000 yuan per child to be introduced, arguing that such a move could boost China\u2019s fertility rate by 25 per cent over the next couple of years.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He Yafu, another independent demographer, has said subsidies of at least 72,000 yuan per child \u2013 more than six times the current national package \u2013 would be necessary to help families deal with the high cost of raising children.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The calls followed news that Singapore had introduced a generous new support package for parents, and the release of birth figures from South Korea suggesting that the nation\u2019s pronatalist policies were leading to an uptick in fertility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beijing should drastically raise its nationwide childcare subsidies to stave off a deepening birth crisis, according to Chinese&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,3686,440775,99,319112,512,4690,346088,164,255745,440776,311627,119687,440777,942,5813,140816,398769],"class_list":["post-872488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beijing","tag-birth-crisis","tag-business","tag-childcare-subsidies","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-east-asian","tag-economy","tag-fertility-rate","tag-he-yafu","tag-james-liang","tag-low-fertility","tag-pronatalist-policies","tag-singapore","tag-south-korea","tag-trip-com","tag-yuwa-population-research-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}