July 11 is the World Population Day.
Nowadays mankind faces a serious population problem of declining birth rate. The worldwide record drop in birth rate gives rise to many socio-economic problems such as shortage of working population, ageing population and growing sustenance allowance.
The birth rate is declining mainly because young people tend to get married well after their marriageable age or even give up marriage and have few children after marriage.
According to a recent UNFPA survey in more than 10 countries, most of young population want to have more than two children, but actually they have fewer than they wanted or give up hope to have children due to financial difficulties.
For this reason, the UNFPA set the theme of this year’s World Population Day as “Empowering young people to create the families they want in a fair and hopeful world,” and calls on all regions and countries to raise public awareness of young people.
The DPRK maintains it as a consistent policy to create stable socio-economic conditions and environment for young people to give birth to many children after marriage.
New dwelling houses are allocated to the families with three or more children and special subsidies are paid according to the number of children. Such preferential measures taken by the state are on the increase as the days go by.
All the children across the country are supplied with dairy products every day at state expense, and efforts are being made to improve the conditions and environment of nurseries, kindergartens and other childcare units so that parents with several children are relieved of the burden of upbringing children.
Meanwhile, epochal measures are being taken to further consolidate the material and technical foundations of the public health sector. As part of this effort, a well-regulated system for providing expectant and nursing mothers with antenatal, delivery and postnatal care and various forms of reproductive health services is being established.
Newspapers, TV and other mass media are giving wide publicity to those women with many children and relevant units and officials who take good care of their lives.
Yang Song Il, section chief of the Population Centre of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
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