China offers parents $500 per child to help boost birth rate

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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From the BBC World Service: Parents in China are being offered a little extra help, about $500 a year for every child under three. It's the government's first nationwide subsidy in a bid to increase birth rates. State media says around 20 million families are eligible for the payments. But will it work? Plus, with northern Mexico in the middle of a severe drought, the country is falling behind on water deliveries to the U.S. promised by a treaty. The Trump administration isn't happy.

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1:01.0	China's going to pay parents to have more babies.
1:04.1	Good morning.
1:04.8	This is the Marketplace Morning Report,
1:06.8	and we're live from the BBC World Service.
1:09.3	I'm Leanna Byrne.
1:10.4	So parents in China are being offered a little extra help,
1:13.9	about $500 a year for every child under three.
1:17.7	It's a government's first nationwide subsidy
1:20.4	to try and boost birth rates.
1:23.2	State media says around 20 million families
1:25.4	are eligible for the payments.
1:27.1	The BBC's Katie Silver is taking a look at this one first. Hi Katie.
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