During that long transition they have unprecedented freedom-from unwanted childbearing, for example-and no particular reason to rush into commitments of any sort.
Zhou's proposal is among several suggestions involving incentives for childbearing and childrearing brought forward during the annual meetings that conclude Friday.
CPPCC member Zhang Junting suggested that cities should work toward lowering the cost of childbearing by offering free kindergarten education for families' third child.
Low waist-to-hip ratios, or hourglass figures, have long been considered to be more attractive, from an evolutionary perspective, in terms of the ability for childbearing.
" Such growth would occur even if childbearing in today's high-fertility countries were to fall immediately to around two births per woman, " the report found.