{"id":59105,"date":"2023-10-10T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T04:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/10\/china-to-hold-nationwide-survey-on-population-changes-as-birthrate-plummets"},"modified":"2023-10-10T13:48:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T04:48:46","slug":"china-to-hold-nationwide-survey-on-population-changes-as-birthrate-plummets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59105","title":{"rendered":"China to hold nationwide survey on population changes as birthrate plummets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poll comes as Beijing is urgently trying an array of measures to lift the country\u2019s birth rate including financial incentives<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s National Bureau of Statistics will conduct a nationwide sample survey in November to help better plan population policies, as authorities struggle to boost the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/17\/chinas-population-falls-for-first-time-in-more-than-60-years#:~:text=China's%20population%20fell%20to%201.412,several%20years%20of%20slowing%20growth&amp;text=Online%2C%20some%20Chinese%20people%20were,the%20low%20birthrate%20still%20remained.\"> country\u2019s flagging birthrate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Concerned about China\u2019s first population drop in six decades and its rapid ageing, Beijing is urgently trying an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/10\/free-college-and-ivf-help-china-hunts-for-ways-to-raise-its-birthrate\">array of measures <\/a>to lift the country\u2019s birthrate including financial incentives and boosting childcare facilities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/10\/china-to-hold-nationwide-survey-on-population-changes-as-birthrate-plummets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poll comes as Beijing is urgently trying an array of measures to lift the country\u2019s birth rate including financial incentivesChina\u2019s National Bureau of Statistics will conduct a nationwide sample survey in November to help better plan population polici&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,706,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-population","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59106,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59105\/revisions\/59106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}