China announces child subsidy programme as births hit historic lows

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China announces child subsidy programme as births hit historic lows  After decades of curbing births, China is urgently trying to reverse a population slump that puts its economic and political future at risk.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/07/29/china-announces-child-subsidy-program-as-births-hit-historic-lows  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00The Chinese central government has said it will begin offering childcare subsidies as the country

00:07faces unprecedented low birth rates. The aid of just over 430 euros per year will be given to

00:15families for their first, second and third child up to the age of three starting this year.

00:22The Chinese Communist Party said the nationwide rollout of cash subsidies will help ease the

00:28pressure of childcare expenses and will help to prevent a further decline in the fertility rate.

00:35China's one-child policy was officially scrapped in 2015 after years of increasingly loose enforcement.

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