text: [{"text_idx": "#000003", "text": "China records all-time low fertility rate for 2022"}, {"text_idx": "#000004", "text": "High childcare costs and having to stop their careers have put many Chinese women off having children. (AP pic)"}, {"text_idx": "#000005", "text": "SHANGHAI: China\u2019s fertility rate is estimated to have dropped to a record low of 1.09 in 2022, the National Business Daily said today, a figure likely to rattle authorities as they try to boost the country\u2019s declining number of new births."}, {"text_idx": "#000006", "text": "The state-backed Daily said the figure from China\u2019s Population and Development Research Center put it as having the lowest fertility level among countries with a population of more than 100 million."}, {"text_idx": "#000008", "text": "Concerned about China\u2019s first population drop in six decades and its rapidly ageing population, Beijing is urgently trying an array of measures to lift the birth rate including financial incentives and improved childcare facilities."}, {"text_idx": "#000009", "text": "President Xi Jinping in May presided over a meeting to study the topic."}, {"text_idx": "#000010", "text": "China has said it will focus on education, science, and technology to improve population quality and strive to maintain a \u201cmoderate fertility\u201d level to support economic growth in the future."}, {"text_idx": "#000011", "text": "High childcare costs and having to stop their careers have put many women off having more children or any at all. Gender discrimination and traditional stereotypes of women caring for their children are still widespread throughout the country."}, {"text_idx": "#000012", "text": "Authorities have in recent months increased rhetoric on sharing the duty of child rearing, but paternity leave is still limited in most provinces."}, {"text_idx": "#000014", "text": "The percentage of couples with one or two children also tumbled while the average number of children per woman dropped from 1.3 in 2017 to a record low of 0.9 last year, according to its survey."}, {"text_idx": "#000018", "text": "China stocks log best day in a month after Beijing steps up stimulus"}, {"text_idx": "#000019", "text": "\u2018Peta standard\u2019 baharu, Malaysia hantar nota bantahan kepada China"}, {"text_idx": "#000021", "text": "China sets new AI rules with \u2018core socialist value\u2019 focus"}, {"text_idx": "#000022", "text": "3 killed in China while trying to outrun flash flood"}, {"text_idx": "#000023", "text": "China may launch next-generation spacecraft by 2027"}, {"text_idx": "#000024", "text": "China carmakers to invest RM6.7 billion to produce EVs in Thailand \u2013 over 31k EVs sold in first half of 2023"}, {"text_idx": "#000026", "text": "China stocks dip on weak services, geopolitics"}]