China News Service, Beijing, August 13 (Reporter Liang Xiaohui) The draft amendment to the Population and Family Planning Law will soon be submitted to the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress for deliberation.

Zang Tiewei, spokesperson for the Legal Work Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, said at a press conference on the 13th that the revised draft is based on optimizing the fertility policy and promoting long-term balanced population development. The active reproductive support measures have been revised.

  Zang Tiewei said that in December 2001, the Population and Family Planning Law was passed at the 25th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress, which came into effect on September 1, 2002.

When the comprehensive two-child policy was implemented in 2015, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress made the first amendment to the law.

Since the implementation of the Population and Family Planning Law, it has played an important role in implementing the basic national policy of family planning and promoting the coordinated development of population and economy, society, resources, and the environment.

To adapt to the new situation of my country's population and economic and social development, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to optimize the fertility policy, enhance the inclusiveness of the fertility policy, and promote the long-term balanced development of the population.

In May of this year, the "Decision on Optimizing the Fertility Policy to Promote the Long-term Balanced Development of the Population" approved by the Politburo meeting proposed that a couple can have three children policy and supporting measures.

In order to implement the decision and deployment of the Party Central Committee, the National Health Commission and the National Development and Reform Commission drafted a draft amendment to the Population and Family Planning Law, which was submitted by the State Council to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for deliberation.

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