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CHINA BRIEFING China’s New began its pivot to a looser family planning
‘Family Planning’ approach, indicating that it would soon
Regulations: allow couples to have two children.
What They More recently, on January 1 of this
Contain and year, new family planning legislation
How They’ll was enacted and late-marriage and
Affect Foreign childbirth incentives dropped, further
Businesses relaxing population controls. With the
average marriage age in China becoming
THEY CAN OFTEN be difficult to policies dropped increasingly older, and the ‘one child
navigate, yet with a population of in a dramatic policy’ being abandoned altogether, many
almost 1.4 billion people, China’s family change in the incentives to discourage childbirth are no
planning laws are incredibly important. government’s longer necessary.
While many people may be aware of stance. In the China’s High Technology Manufacturing
China’s previous ‘one child policy’, the closing months of Industry Fueled by Government Support
country also had a number of other 2015, the Chinese in eastern areas.
rules and regulations in place designed government
to control population growth. These New Legislation for 2016 & Impact on
included late-marriage or late-childbirth Businesses in China
incentives, in the form of extra holidays,
to encourage couples to marry later and Up until last year, base maternity leave
give birth across China stood at 98 days. Those
to just couples that decided to delay childbirth
one child. beyond a certain age would be granted
with an additional period of leave.
Specific regulations varied by province,
but typically, ‘late childbirth’ was defined
as having a child after the age of 24.
Additional leave periods varied from 15
days to 60 days, by province. This no
longer stands, however, as the new
regulation drops these clauses.
While some out-dated policies have
been abandoned, they will likely
be replaced, to some extent,
with added benefits in the
form of extended maternity
and paternity leave on
a local level. However,
despite national policy
being effective as of January
2016,
however,
has seen these
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CHINA BRIEFING China’s New began its pivot to a looser family planning
‘Family Planning’ approach, indicating that it would soon
Regulations: allow couples to have two children.
What They More recently, on January 1 of this
Contain and year, new family planning legislation
How They’ll was enacted and late-marriage and
Affect Foreign childbirth incentives dropped, further
Businesses relaxing population controls. With the
average marriage age in China becoming
THEY CAN OFTEN be difficult to policies dropped increasingly older, and the ‘one child
navigate, yet with a population of in a dramatic policy’ being abandoned altogether, many
almost 1.4 billion people, China’s family change in the incentives to discourage childbirth are no
planning laws are incredibly important. government’s longer necessary.
While many people may be aware of stance. In the China’s High Technology Manufacturing
China’s previous ‘one child policy’, the closing months of Industry Fueled by Government Support
country also had a number of other 2015, the Chinese in eastern areas.
rules and regulations in place designed government
to control population growth. These New Legislation for 2016 & Impact on
included late-marriage or late-childbirth Businesses in China
incentives, in the form of extra holidays,
to encourage couples to marry later and Up until last year, base maternity leave
give birth across China stood at 98 days. Those
to just couples that decided to delay childbirth
one child. beyond a certain age would be granted
with an additional period of leave.
Specific regulations varied by province,
but typically, ‘late childbirth’ was defined
as having a child after the age of 24.
Additional leave periods varied from 15
days to 60 days, by province. This no
longer stands, however, as the new
regulation drops these clauses.
While some out-dated policies have
been abandoned, they will likely
be replaced, to some extent,
with added benefits in the
form of extended maternity
and paternity leave on
a local level. However,
despite national policy
being effective as of January
2016,
however,
has seen these
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