Baby bonus: China offers 10,800 yuan per child to boost birth rate; why ‘lie flat’ generation isn’t convinced
A woman and her partner in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. (AP) As China’s population approached 1 billion in the late 1970s, the then Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping introduced the one-child policy in 1979, and China even fined parents for having more children. Four decades later, the government has turned the policy upside down and […]