China News Service, Beijing, January 20 (Reporter Gao Kai) The China Family Planning Association and the China Population and Development Research Center released the "China Reproductive Health Report" (hereinafter referred to as the report) in Beijing on the 20th.
The report on the same day for the first time comprehensively combed and read China's reproductive health data since the early 1970s, and systematically reviewed China's family planning process and reproductive health development path in the past 50 years.
It can be seen from the report that the concept of reproductive health has gradually developed from activities such as the women’s liberation movement, family planning, and women’s health for more than a century.
Over the years, China has significantly improved the reproductive health of the general public by formulating and improving laws and regulations, conducting publicity and education, and providing comprehensive reproductive health and family planning services.
The report shows that since the founding of New China, the maternal mortality rate has dropped from 1500/100,000 to 17.8/100,000, the infant mortality rate has dropped from 200‰ to 5.6‰, and the average life expectancy has increased from about 35 years to 77.3 years. These related indicators Both are better than the level of high-income countries in the world.
The comprehensive contraceptive rate has been stable for a long time above 80%, which is at a high level worldwide.
The report pointed out that China currently faces some new challenges in the field of reproductive health, mainly: the level of induced abortion has risen rapidly, the rate of induced abortion has risen from 25.9‰ in 2014 to 28.3‰ in 2018; unmet need for contraception has increased since 1988 Reproductive health problems of unmarried people, migrants and other populations are more serious, and HIV/AIDS infections in individual groups are on the rise.
In addition, grassroots family planning services and management face challenges such as the need to improve service capabilities, the need to improve service networks, and the need to improve service quality.
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