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Migrant help

Metro | Jobs/human resources
2009-11-12

SHANGHAI Population and Family Planning Commission said yesterday that it has signed agreement with eight provinces, the major sources of migrant workers in the city, to improve migrant people's family planning. Migrant...

Baby boom to echo for 10 years

Metro | Jobs/human resources
2009-10-23

SHANGHAI population authorities expect about 165,000 infants to be born among city residents this year, close to last year's figure and continuing a baby boom that started in 2007 and may last for another eight to...

Population density raises concerns

Metro | Jobs/human resources
2009-9-26

DESPITE the global downturn, Shanghai's economic progress continues to act as a population magnet, drawing an increasing number of foreigners and Chinese from other parts of the country and raising new challenges...

Sharp rise expected in aging population

National
2009-8-26

CHINA will have an additional 8 million people yearly reaching 60 years of age starting this year as the country speeds its progress to a grayer society, a top senior population official said. Wu Yushao, vice...

Baby boom urgently required

Metro | Jobs/human resources
2009-7-24

THE Shanghai Population and Family Planning Commission is launching a campaign to encourage eligible couples to give birth to a second child as concerns mount over a rapidly aging population. Population officials...

Shanghai encourages some couples to have second child

Metro
2009-7-23

AUTHORITIES in China's largest city, Shanghai, have launched a campaign to encourage couples who are themselves only children to have a second child, as concerns mount about a rapidly aging population. Officials...

Have children

Metro | Jobs/human resources
2009-7-23

THE Shanghai Population and Family Planning Commission is encouraging couples who are allowed to have a second child to do so. Shanghai has no plan to loosen the requirements for having a second child because of...

City home to 23m by 2020

Metro | Jobs/human resources
2009-6-25

SHANGHAI'S population is expected to grow to 19.5 million in 2010, about 3 percent more than last year. And by 2020, the city's total should hit 23 million, due to an increase in births, a large influx of new...

Family advice

Metro | Jobs/human resources
2009-5-26

SHANGHAI Population and Family Planning Commission has added advice on reproductive health, birth control and child-rearing to its hotline 12356. The hotline, launched last July, originally only offered advice...

Family planning

Metro | Jobs/human resources
2009-4-17

THE Shanghai Population and Family Planning Committee has established 23 standardized community-based family planning and rehabilitation health centers in the city's outskirts. The committee last year distributed...