Ctrip offers staff loans to pay fines

"The post-70s are nearly at the end of their childbearing period. If they are not given the chance, they may never be able to have a second child."

Ctrip has more than 10,000 employees in Shanghai and 30,000 across the country. A number of employees have asked the company's human resources department for details of the loans, but so far no one has applied.

Liang said in a previous interview that "if no one applies for the loan, the situation is really serious, it means that people nowadays are not willing to have children anymore".