Family Planning

Premarital checkups－rising again after decline－to reduce birth defects

2018-01-09

The premarital checkup rate in China increased to nearly 60 percent of all new couples in 2016, after a series of measures taken in recent years to encourage the exams as a way to help reduce birth defects, China's top health authority said.

Changes improve efficiency of family planning services

2018-01-08

For most of her 13 years as a grassroots family planning officer, Wang Wanhui's main task has been to discourage her fellow villagers from having more children than the law allowed.

NHFPC holds activity in Henan to publicize birth defects prevention

2016-12-21

The National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) together with the Chinese Birth Defects Intervention Relief Foundation held a public welfare activity in Zhengzhou, Henan province on December 16 to publicize birth defects prevention.

China promotes new ideas for family planning policy

2016-12-08

China held a video conference on December 6 in Beijing, promoting the new family planning policy with two children at its core.

China holds forum on migrant population

2016-11-27

China held its first ever forum on the health and development of the migrant population on Nov 26 in Beijing as part of the implementation of the Health China blueprint initiated by China’s top leadership.

Two-child policy could see rise in deaths during pregnancy

2016-12-07

In recent years, the treatment of pregnant patients has become an increasingly thorny task for Liu Wenxian, a cardiologist at Anzhen Hospital in Beijing, as a result of the rise in the number of older women wanting to give birth.

Looking to the new generation

2016-03-09

Whether or not to have a second child has become a burning and urgent question for millions of Chinese couples who recently became eligible to have two children under the terms of China's revised family planning policy.

Bid to change family planning law stirs debate

2015-12-24

Debate is raging over a draft amendment to China's population and family planning law following the government decision to drop the one-child policy.

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