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China's fertility-friendly policies from 2016 to 2025 exhibit an upward trend in quantity but reveal an imbalanced distribution of policy tools and insufficient alignment between policy tools and objectives. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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This research aims to quantitatively analyze China's fertility-friendly policies from 2016 to 2025 and identify their structural characteristics and evolution.

March 7, 2026BMC Public HealthOpen Access

Textual quantitative analysis of China’s fertility-friendly policies——based on a two dimensional analytical framework of policy tools and policy objectives

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YKYi KangJilin University YLYijing LiEast China University of Science and Technology LZLi ZhangChina Population and Development Research Center

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Quantitative analysis reveals structural characteristics and optimization needs of fertility policies in China, indicating a shift towards systematic development.

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This research aims to quantitatively analyze China's fertility-friendly policies from 2016 to 2025 and identify their structural characteristics and evolution.
Constructed a two-dimensional framework of policy tools and objectives
Conducted content analysis and word frequency analysis on 46 central-level policy texts
Applied semantic network analysis to evaluate policy characteristics
Fertility-friendly policies showed an upward trend with phased features
Environmental, supply, and demand policy tools were imbalanced at 40.65%, 40.29%, and 19.06%
Service-friendly objectives comprised 73.14% of goals, revealing an uneven hierarchy

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Kang et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69abc2075af8044f7a4eb2db https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-26856-w

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Quantitative analysis reveals structural characteristics and optimization needs of fertility policies in China, indicating a shift towards systematic development.

Textual quantitative analysis of China’s fertility-friendly policies——based on a two dimensional analytical framework of policy tools and policy objectives

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Textual quantitative analysis of China’s fertility-friendly policies——based on a two dimensional analytical framework of policy tools and policy objectives

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