Until now, the commission had allowed only married couples who also wanted to have up to two children to join up with local authorities.
China’s population shrank last year initially in six decades, a historic switch expected to usher in a period of decline. That will prospect is pressing authorities to turns out incentives and measures to boost the population.
A nationwide registry system for married couples to register with private sector organisations ensures maternity insurance to cover medical bills, while letting married women keep their own salary during maternal leave.
These types of benefits will now become extended to individual women and men in Sichuan, which ranks 7th in the nation when it comes to those older than 60, or more than twenty one per cent of its human population, government figures display.
Much of China’s demographic downturn comes from its one-child plan imposed between 1980 and 2015.