The county of Changshan in eastern China offers a “reward” of $140 for couples if the bride is 25 years old or younger.
Encouraging more young people to get married has therefore become a priority for the Chinese government, as Australia’s ABC NewsChina’s legal age limit for marriage is 22 for males and 20 for females, but the number of couples getting married has been falling.
That has driven down birth rates due to official policies which make it harder for single women to have children. Marriage rates hit a record low in 2022 at 6.8 million, the lowest since 1986, according to government data released in June. There were 800,000 fewer marriages last year than in 2021. None of these policy remedies have worked terribly well so far. The national fertility rate has only gonesince the regime in Beijing formally acknowledged its population crisis and began implementing policies to counter it.childless Chinese subjects for “pedophobia,” floating a theory that stubbornly low birthrates are exacerbated by a sinister Internet conspiracy to make young couples afraid of having children.
A nurse holds a baby at an infant care centre in Yongquan, in Chongqing municipality, in southwest China. that Changshan’s little cash reward for young brides would reverse these trends, pointing to high childcare costs, the reluctance of young Chinese women to sacrifice their careers to become mothers, and “low consumer confidence and growing concerns over the health of China’s economy” as reasons for the demographic drop.
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