{"id":294153,"date":"2023-07-05T14:40:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T19:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=294153"},"modified":"2023-07-03T16:38:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T21:38:15","slug":"chinese-company-financial-incentive-start-grow-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/chinese-company-financial-incentive-start-grow-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese company offers employees financial incentive &#8216;to start or grow their families&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinese company Trip.com Group is offering its employees 10,000 yuan ($1,376) per year for the first five years of their children\u2019s lives as a way to boost fertility as the Communist nation faces a demographic crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The travel agency <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trip.com\/newsroom\/trip-com-group-announces-rmb-1-billion-childcare-subsidy-for-global-employees\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Thursday that it planned to spend 1 billion yuan ($138M USD) in total with employees qualifying after three years of employment at the company. The company has 32,000 employees, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/06\/30\/business\/china-trip-pay-employees-births-intl-hnk\/index.html#:~:text=Workers%20who%20have%20been%20with,will%20take%20effect%20on%20Saturday.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CNN<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Employees are our greatest asset to the company and we are committed to creating a better and more supportive working environment for them,\u201d Trip.com Group Executive Chairman James Liang. \u201cThrough the introduction of this new childcare benefit, we aim to provide financial support that will encourage our employees to start or grow their families without compromising on their professional goals and achievements.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liang, who authored the book \u201cPopulation Strategies: How Population Affects Economy and Innovation,&#8221; reportedly expressed support for government subsidizing population growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI have always suggested that the government give money to families with children \u2026 to reduce the family\u2019s child-rearing costs and help more young people fulfill their desire to have multiple children,\u201d CNN reported him saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the outlet, Beijing Dabeingong Technology and QiaoYin City Management have also offered their employees cash benefits for new children. Both reportedly offered money if families had a third child. For years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) restricted birth to one child but that was eventually relaxed and a three-child policy was announced in 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/china-one-child-freeze-eggs\/\">Fallout from one-child policy: Chinese woman sues for right to freeze her eggs<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company\u2019s announcement came amid news that Chinese authorities looked to incentivize child-rearing and easier marriage, which have declined in recent years as the nation reckons with the fallout of its strict population control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In its wake, the one-child policy has left millions of children dead and mothers likely racked with trauma from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/graphic-photo-of-forced-late-term-abortion-posted-online-forces-china-to-respond\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">abortions they were forced into<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The country\u2019s draconian policies have even created an entire sub-class of residents known as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heihaizi\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cheihaizi,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who do not have official documentation because they were born outside of the country\u2019s birth limit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Live Action News previously <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/china-ivf-single-population-control\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Chinese government has considered supporting reproductive technologies such as in-vitro fertilization (IVF) for single women. And according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/08\/china\/china-ivf-fertility-treatment-national-healthcare-intl-hnk\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CNN<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the country\u2019s National Healthcare Security Administration said in February that the country\u2019s insurance policy would support couples trying to conceive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It added that the falling population is hindering the country\u2019s attempts to develop. The population reportedly fell by 850,000 to 1.4 billion in 2022, according to government statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/target-petition\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=lan_website&amp;utm_content=target_petition\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-292702\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Target petition\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-768x198.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-500x129.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese company Trip.com Group is offering its employees 10,000 yuan ($1,376) per year for the first five years of their children\u2019s lives as a way to boost fertility as the Communist nation faces a demographic crisis. 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