Beginning in 1979, China implemented the one-child policy, which stipulated that a couple can only have one child, resulting in a declining new population and a rapidly ageing society. In order to slow down the trend of population ageing, in 2015, the CCP officially launched the two-child policy, which relaxed the birth restrictions. However, the policy did not result in the expected wave of births, and the pregnancy rate among young women continued to show a record low decline, experiencing a third consecutive year of decrease. In this regard, during the 2020 National People's Congress (NPC) session, NPC deputy Huang Xihua suggested removing the penalty policy for having more than three children.