Legal basis: Population and Family Planning Law of the People's Republic of China.
Article 9 the State Council shall formulate a population development plan and incorporate it into the national economic and social development plan.
The local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the national population development plan and the population development plan of the people's government at the next higher level, and in combination with local conditions, formulate the population development plan of their respective administrative areas and incorporate it into the national economic and social development plan.
Tenth people's governments at or above the county level shall, according to the population development plan, formulate the implementation plan of population and family planning and organize its implementation.
The family planning administrative department of the people's government at or above the county level is responsible for the daily work of implementing the population and family planning implementation plan.
The people's governments of townships, nationality townships and towns and the urban neighborhood offices shall be responsible for the population and family planning work within their respective jurisdictions and implement the implementation plan of population and family planning.
Article 18 The State encourages a couple to have two children.
Article 23 The State shall, in accordance with regulations, reward couples who practise family planning.
Article 24 The state establishes and improves social security systems such as basic old-age insurance, basic medical insurance, maternity insurance and social welfare, and promotes family planning.
The state encourages insurance companies to organize insurance projects that are beneficial to family planning.
Conditional places can implement various forms of old-age security measures in rural areas according to the principle of government guidance and farmers' voluntary participation.