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Parents in China are being offered 3,600 yuan (£375; $500) a year for each of their children under the age of three in the government's first nationwide subsidy aimed at boosting birth rates.

The country's birth rate has been falling, even after the ruling Communist Party abolished its controversial one-child policy almost a decade ago.

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[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 31 points 1 week ago

Make it per month and until the kid is 18 years old, not 3 years, and many will jump at the opportunity. And that would be a lot closer to the real cost of raising a child. The red pill crowd even seems to assume women would see that as a whole career. Oh, the government can't afford that? Then I guess having many children is not economically viable and population shrinking is the only way to go.

[-] itslilith 7 points 1 week ago

Germany does about half of that (255€ per month and child until 25 or until the child finishes their education) and still birth rates are in the gutter

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

The cost of living is much higher in Germany and even "half of" enough would still be considerably less than enough.

[-] itslilith 4 points 1 week ago

Yes, it's about two- to three times as high. I realized I messed up in my original comment, tho:

255€ a month, vs 500ish$ a year. That's several times more (and still not enough), and it lasts until the child is grown up, not just three years. This will not have an impact on China's population crisis

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 30 points 1 week ago

I am once again asking countries with low birthrates to increase immigration.

[-] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 week ago

But what about the racism?

[-] Eril@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago

Racists can go to Russia. I heard they have a lot of space in their country.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

And, oddly enough, racists moving there dont seem to take up any space.

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 week ago

This need a picture of great wall with transparent xi floating head and a quote that say "git fucking"

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

That doesn't even cover a month of childcare

[-] Peck@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

In US I assume. How much does childcare cost in China?

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[-] Peck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This article talks about cost "relative to its GDP per capita." In the proposal they give flat sum of money. So we are comparing Apple to oranges. Not saying you're wrong, but I still would like to know how much is daycare per month in China. I know in us I pay 2k per month. I doubt it's the same there.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Women generally see a reduction of 2,106 working hours when looking after children aged 0-4 and face an estimated wage loss of 63,000 yuan ($8,700) in the period, the report said, using an hourly wage gauge of 30 yuan per hour. Having a child will also lead to a 12-17% drop in women's wages, the report said.Leisure time will be reduced by 12.6 hours for mothers with one child aged 0-6 and 14 hours for two children.T

[-] Peck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

So they get compensated about quarter of their yearly expenses with this btw bill. If they had an equivalent of this in us I'd get about 6k yearly from gvmt for each child. Not too shabby in my book.

Gearing up for the future wars. Need as much man power as they can get!

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The best time to begin replacing your dead soldiers is before you start feeding them into a meatgrinder.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

Band aids, band aids , who doesn't love band aids?

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 week ago

1500$ is like diaper budget for a month

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

I sincerely hope that's an exaggeration, but I did call it a bandaid for a reason.

[-] dropped_packet@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

What are you feeding that thing?!?

[-] floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Maybe this will stop Chinese tourists from holding their babies over trash cans, so they can shit into them….

Because, really, it really seems that what the Chinese could use is diapers, and the training to use them.

[-] prole 10 points 1 week ago

Maybe this will stop Chinese tourists from holding their babies over trash cans, so they can shit into them….

Pardon?

[-] floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

I get your shock and confusion. The first time I thought, I was also shocked and confused.

[-] prole 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why the hostility? Or have I misread your comment?

[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 week ago

Keep telling us how our existence hurts you. Keep telling us how we are winning.

[-] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Ooo you could buy maybe MAYBE buy a months worth of baby supplies on that. Cool. Yeah. That'll fix everything wrong with everything.

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