China will coordinate family planning policy: VP
BEIJING
- Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang said Tuesday that China would
coordinate its national family planning policy, stabilizing an
appropriately low birth rate and improving the quality of its
population.
The government must solve the issue in a
way that takes into consideration the whole picture of China's
long-term social and economic development, he said.
Chinese government statistics show China's
population stood at 1.32 billion at the end of 2008, which was about
2.5 times the number in 1949 when the People's Republic of China was
founded.
The Chinese government adopted a family
planning policy in the late 1970s which basically permits most urban
households to have only one child.
The policy had helped China's total
population increase less than 40 percent between 1978 and 2008, whereas
it nearly doubled between 1949 and 1978.
Li said the government would make efforts
to improve the quality of the population, optimize the population
structure and spur the rational distribution of the people, so as to
turn the pressure of the population into an advantage of human
resources.
He also said the government would launch
measures to narrow the widening ratio of men to women and address
problems arising with an aging population.
The population aged at or above 60-years-old will top 200 million by the end of 2015, government reports showed.
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