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一位代表在中国的议会会议上提议，为那些希望在校期间结婚生子的研究生和博士生提供资金和政策支持。
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该代表说，生育保险应覆盖大学生，高等教育系统应更好地与国家的婚姻和生育政策相衔接。
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教育系统应考虑到最佳生育年龄，并做出相应调整，以便年轻人能够做出合理的婚姻和生育安排。
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然而，一位独立的人口学家警告说，不应鼓励大学生结婚和生育。
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中国去年录得六十年来的首次人口下降，促进生育和为日益增多的老年人提供照顾已成为今年议会年会提案的一个热门话题。
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1月份发布的一项调查显示，中国大多数大学生并不认为婚姻是必要的，而鼓励生育的政策对动摇他们对建立家庭的兴趣没有什么作用。
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根据《2022年中国统计年鉴》，去年中国首次结婚的人数下降到1160万，比前一年减少了近70万。
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由于六十年来死亡人数首次超过出生人数，2022年中国的人口减少了85万，达到14.18亿。
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除了何丹的提案外，其他几位代表也提出了提高出生率的想法，包括允许未婚妇女使用冷冻卵子等辅助生殖技术，并提议
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18岁以下的儿童应获得国家津贴。
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A delegate proposed at China’s parliamentary gathering to provide financial and policy support for postgraduate and doctoral students who desire to get married and have children while in school.
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The delegate said that maternity insurance should cover college students and that the higher education system should better connect with the nation’s marriage and childbirth policies.
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The educational system should take into consideration the optimal age for childbirth and make adjustments accordingly so that young people can make reasonable marriage and childbirth arrangements.
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However, an independent demographer warned that college students should not be encouraged to get married and give birth.
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China recorded its first population decline in six decades last year, and boosting births and providing care for an ever-growing number of seniors has become a hot topic for proposals at this year’s annual parliamentary meetings.
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A survey released in January showed how most college students in China do not see marriage as a necessity, and policies to encourage births have done little to sway their disinterest in starting a family.
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The number of people who got married for the first time in China dropped to 11.6 million last year, almost 700,000 down from the previous year, according to the China Statistics Yearbook 2022.
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China’s population fell by 850,000 to 1.4118 billion in 2022 as deaths outnumbered births for the first time in six decades.
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Besides He Dan’s proposal, several other delegates have pitched ideas to boost births, including allowing unmarried women to use assisted reproductive technologies such as freezing eggs and proposing that children under the age of 18 should receive a national allowance.