Kondome und Verhütungsmittel werden in China teurer, da Peking seine Bemühungen zur Erhöhung der Geburtenrate beschleunigt

So a sex tax?

Wouldn’t they yield more babies if they banned/limited condoms or just poked holes in them?

Seems like a capitalist approach to simply charge more.

i expect this to happen in america too as conservatives push for higher birth rates.

That would also explain why they’re [making gay dating apps harder to access.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/china-removes-gay-dating-apps-blued-finka-apple-android-lgbt-rights) Unfortunately for the Chinese government, removing apps from the app store does not make gay men straight. Were the members of the CCP Politburo more in touch with the people they purport to represent, they would know that by now. Old, out of touch men with money and endless time to waste on anything but working doing what they do best.

>China is removing a tax exemption for contraceptives first applied during the One-child Policy era.

>In an announcement about China’s Value-added Tax (VAT) Law this week, condoms and contraceptive pills were removed from the exemption list, meaning up to 13 per cent tax could be added.

>A condom in China can be as cheap as $0.60

So a 13% tax on 60 cents.

They need to be told that most married couples and many unmarried couples do not use contraception, but use simpler methods to avoid pregnancy.

Rise in stds?

Yet another “plan” that fails to do the basic of making life suck less for the majority of their citizens so they’re more likely to want to have kids.

Either they lost way more people to COVID than they claim, and/or they are expecting a lot of deaths in the near future (ie. War). Their standard of living is the best it’s ever been, but this generally moves that needle the opposite way. So, it’s pretty sus.

It hasn’t just occurred to all the world governments to pay people more and give them more leisure time…what a wild theory it might not work says the world elites

This is just completely misinterpreted because you’re thinking in terms of your own experiences. A condom in China costs something like $0.50. Taxing that at 13% would make a condom cost $0.58. If you think that price difference is going to make a difference to condom usage I don’t know what to say. It will make a meaningful difference to tax revenues though.

Um…

If they can’t afford condoms, they certainly can’t afford a child. What the fuck China?

Another reminder why the fertility crisis is and always will be a systemic and mostly financial issue even in those countries with all the benefits and some cash incentive for children.

1, the woman in near all situations still faces damage to her career because she at minimum and depending on equality also the father are morally expected to take a lot of time off to be present and capable parents. Businesses in the system we live in today simply aren’t going to keep more troublesome employees on, or at minimum will freeze their career progress in favour of those unburdened by children.

2, unless you are have a considerably wealthy job in those countries you can’t get by with the cost of living there, expected standard for life and education for your child with less working hours and an insufficient cash incentive. The kind of money needed for all that and to ensure your child has an educated future and can reliably leave the home between the ages of 18-25 is approaching 80’000 USD per child per year. Governments CAN significantly impact this problem by offering much larger financial assistance while investing in culture initiatives to make employers feel almost happy to support parents instead of punishing them, especially the women for the thought of wanting both a career and children.

This can be done but not in such a self serving profits at all costs world and those in charge don’t want you to think it is possible to solve, that it is just inherent issue when you give women rights and education. Yes of course I’m biased here but it’s still the truth!

That is not only a stupid idea, but also a massive douchebag move by the Government….

Not surprised really…

a billion ppl talking about wanting more children …

Why is it that when everyone thinks of birth rate they think of sex and the actual act of reproduction when it has nothing to do with that at all. Why do they think people don’t want to have kids and use condoms a lot???

It’s not *having* the kids that’s the issue, it’s the *raising* part – and that is a problem of society, not of fucking contraceptives.

If the government wants more babies this will happen: condoms and contraceptives will become more scarce, costly or defective. The family system that got the population growth of the past is too weakened or broken.

The next step is artificial wombs and children farms in government facilities. Aldous Huxley knew it 😅

I’ve found that there is a surprsing overlap in certain people to hold the opinion that people need to have more children but also be of the opinion that poor people shouldn’t have kids that can’t afford. It’s very interesting actually.

This is such a bad idea

Lol that’s some whiplash in family planning policy. Before it was max 1 kid or you’ll be fined, now it’s have more kids and we gonna make it harder for you to abstain.

If this doesn’t work maybe soon they’ll fine you if you don’t have any kids. It’ll be under the pretense of civic duty

they couldn’t solve the problem with toddler’s nutrition and care, why should chinese people want more babies? That tax doesnt solve anything

Eh, is it not just the removal of a consumption tax exemption? The headline makes it seem crazier than it actually is. I doubt this will have any effect whatsoever, unless China happens to have a 500% consumption tax or something.

This will absolutely lead to women refusing to have sex with their partners and/or stay single.

That is not how you fix such an issue.

It’s the same with every government lmao they’ll try anything but making the world better

truly we have more in common than we do separate