Cheuk Wing-king: Policy Address rolls out measures to encourage childbirth, medium-term goal to curb falling birth rate

Deputy Chief Secretary Cheuk Wing-king told the Legislative Council that this year's Policy Address had launched 11 bundled measures to encourage childbirth, with the medium-term goal of curbing the falling birth rate. As of mid-September this year, the Newborn Baby Incentive Scheme had paid incentive payments to 78,530 applicants, totalling about $1.571 billion. The authorities will conduct a review two years after the new round of measures to encourage childbirth is launched.