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Although new policies allow families to have as many as three children, China's birth rate dropped to 7.52 births per 1,000 people in 2021, the lowest since the National Bureau of Statistics began recording the data in 1949.

In a bombshell interview from behind bars, the disgraced socialite - jailed in the US for 20-years after being found guilty of being paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator - described the Duke of York as a 'dear friend'. Prince Andrew needs the backing of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell like he needs a 'hole in the head', friends of the royal have reportedly said.

The Financial Times said Sir Jon's report also warned that rising inflation is presenting a "significant and growing challenge" and that continuing to record costs in 2019 prices means none of the figures reflected "what has been or is being paid".

'So if you do assume that they are trying to take this problem seriously, then it would suggest that we should be preparing for a lower rate of growth in the future, especially from property construction,' he told the ABC's China Tonight program.

A report presented to the HS2 board by the project's deputy chair Sir Jon Thompson said it was "very unlikely" that the £40.3 billion target cost for the London to Birmingham section would be met, the Financial Times reported.

'People are taking this more seriously is because of the crackdowns over the summer for our tech companies because of the actions against the education and tutoring companies and so therefore people are taking Beijing's messages against the property sector a lot more seriously than they had in the past,' he said.

In a letter to investors seen by the news wire service, the Shenzhen Financial Regulatory Bureau said 'relevant departments of the Shenzhen government have gathered public opinions about Evergrande Wealth and are launching a thorough investigation into related issues of the company'.

Maxwell this weekend confirmed that a woman had threatened to murder her as she slept. The MoS revealed in June that a fellow inmate at the MDC had bragged she was going to murder Maxwell, claiming that there was a $1 million bounty on her head.

She dismissed a photograph, first revealed by this newspaper, of the Prince with his arm around Ms Roberts at Maxwell's home in Belgravia, Central London, in March 2001, saying: 'I don't recognise that picture and I don't believe it is a real picture. There's so many things wrong with it. There is no original and there isn't a true picture and there are that many other things besides that I cannot hardly get into… I don't know how many points there are, but there are over 50 problems with the picture.'

Experts warn China's ageing population will put huge pressure on its health and social security system, while a dwindling workforce could also severely limit growth for the world's second largest economy in the coming decades.

Beijing-based YuWa Population Research Institute said in a report published on Tuesday that the average cost of raising a child to the age of 18 in China in 2019 stood at 485,000 yuan ($76,629) for a first child, 6.9 times China's per capita GDP that year.

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Child rearing costs are even higher in China's major cities, reaching more than 1 million yuan in Shanghai and 969,000 yuan in Beijing.

Birth rates in the two cities are even lower than the national average.

China would need to spend at least 5% of its annual GDP to create incentives for couples to have more children, including education subsidies, preferential mortgage rates, tax breaks, equal paternity and maternity leave, as well as the construction of more childcare centres, it added.

SHANGHAI, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The cost of raising a child in China stands at nearly seven times its per capita GDP, far more than the United States and Japan, highlighting the challenges facing Chinese policymakers as they try to tackle rapidly declining birth rates, new research showed.

One friend of the royal reportedly today told: 'Receiving vocabulary words of support from a convicted sex trafficker isn't very helpful.' The friend also reportedly told the paper that he needs Maxwell's backing 'like a hole in the head'.

So there's nothing to protect your modesty.' Maxwell, who said she had never contemplated taking her own life, described wearing an anti-suicide smock - a long tunic made of thick nylon - adding: 'They strip you of any remaining shred of dignity that you have. If you are you looking for more about word worm app; Kidsontheyard.com official, review the web site. After Epstein killed himself as he awaited trial, prison bosses put her on suicide watch prior to her sentencing. They have you with no clothes, and they put you in a suicide smock, which has Velcro straps on it.