Family planning reform shifts the focus to healthy population growth

THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT published an institutional reform plan for the National Health Commission on Monday, which requires the commission to restructure its internal departments and personnel. ThePaper.cn comments:

According to the reform plan, the NHC's three departments in charge of family planning will be scrapped. The departments of family planning grassroots guidance, family planning and development, and mobile population family planning service will give way to a new department responsible for collecting population data and monitoring families' well-being.

The move shows China's focus has shifted from preventing fast population growth to promoting healthy population growth.