{"id":9093,"date":"2021-12-14T07:30:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T07:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/?p=9093"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:48:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:48:26","slug":"do-chinese-companies-offer-childcare-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/do-chinese-companies-offer-childcare-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Chinese companies offer childcare leave?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Childcare leave (also called parental leave) is relatively new in China and was only introduced recently as part of an effort to address the growing demographic imbalance and boost childbirth. So how much childcare leave do Chinese companies offer and does parental leave differ by region?<\/h2>\n

On May 9, 2019, the State Council issued guidelines encouraging local governments to start pilot childcare leave programmes within their jurisdictions. The policy was designed to provide more support for home-based childcare services, rather than expensive daycares.<\/p>\n

In the period following, multiple regions began exploring the implementation of childcare leave, including the provinces of Guangdong, Fujian and Ningxia. At that time, however, employers were only encouraged to grant employees childcare leave until a child reached a certain age, and were not obliged to do so.<\/p>\n

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Then, China announced the three-child policy<\/a> in May 2021 and updated its Population and Family Planning Law in August 2021. The Population and Family Planning Law says that the state supports the establishment of childcare leave where conditions permit. In the following months, this suggestion was translated into concrete local policies, as more and more provinces amended their population and family planning regulations and stipulated that both parents who lawfully have a child are entitled to a certain amount of paid childcare leave per year until their child reaches a certain age.<\/p>\n