‘Are women just machines?’ Chinese web users turned off by proposals to raise birth rate

By Reuters

Proposals for matchmaking committees within local trade unions and a drive to encourage more graduate students to have children triggered a frosty reception on social media in China, as officials brainstormed ways to raise the country’s plunging birth rate.In all, delegates to China’s annual meeting of parliament submitted more than 20 suggestions for boosting population growth in a country that did not scrap a decades-long policy restricting couples to a single child until 2016.A Communist…

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