Life expectancy in China has increased by over 0.6 of a year to 77.93 years even as the world's second-largest economy grappled with a demographic crisis due to declining birth rates, according to the National Health Commission. As per the latest census, the number of Chinese people aged 60 or above reached 264 million by 2020, accounting for 18.7 percent of the country's total population. “The health literacy rate has risen to 25.4 percent, and 37.2 percent of Chinese people regularly take part in physical exercise,” Mao Qun'an, the director of the National Health Commission's department of planning and information, told a media briefing on July 5. China faced a demographic crisis as its childbirths decreased alarmingly while numbers of the old-age population grew, warranting the government to expand geriatric care facilities. China permitted all couples to have two children in 2016, scrapping the draconian decades-old one-child policy which policymakers blame for the current demographic crisis. Last year, China passed a revised Population and Family Planning Law allowing Chinese couples to have three children, in an apparent attempt to address the reluctance of couples to have more kids due to mounting costs. The decision to permit the third child came… Read full this story
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