Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a birth rate adjustment programme towards 2030 which encourages people to get married before the age of 30 and women to give birth to their second child before 35.
Health workers tend to newborn babies at the General Hospital of Khanh Hoa province (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) -Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a birth rate adjustment programmetowards 2030 which encourages people to get married before the age of 30 andwomen to give birth to their second child before 35.
The programme sets the target to increase the birth rate by 10 percent inlocalities with a low rate (less than two children per couple) and reduce therate in localities with a high rate of more than 2.2 children per couple.
Provinces and cities in which each woman of reproductive age has two to 2.2children should maintain the rate or so-called desired fertility at replacementlevel.
The targets aim to help Vietnam accomplish the national population strategy by2030.
The PM ordered the issuance of regulations so that public employees and Partymembers set the example of having no more than two children in their families.
Areas with a low birth rate or desired fertility at replacement level shouldencourage families to have two children.
PM Phuc asked local authorities to pilot policies to support couples in givingbirth and raising children. Getting married or giving birth at an old age isnot encouraged.
Couples who have two children will have their income tax reduced and beassisted with children’s tuition fees or expenses to rent houses or buy socialhousing. Children of these families will have priority to be admitted to publicschools.
Local authorities have been asked to pilot marriage and family consultationservices such as dating clubs and pre-marriage health consultations.
Pregnant women or those having two children have access to mother and babyhealth care and malnutrition prevention consultations./.
Facts have shown that in disadvantaged areas, the fertility is high, in contrast, in urban areas, the birth rate is low, even far below the replacement level in some places.
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Health workers tend to newborn babies at the General Hospital of Khanh Hoa province (Photo: VNA) 
