Chinese tech group joins the battle on falling birth rate
携程拟发奖金鼓励员工生育
Trip.com to offer new parents bonuses to help solve population decline
中国企业奖励员工生孩子的趋势开始加速之际，这家旅游集团宣布员工每新生育1个孩子，将获得每年1万元人民币的现金补贴，直到孩子满5岁。
Chinese online travel agency Trip.com is preparing Rmb1bn ($140mn) in cash subsidies to encourage employees to have more babies, in one of the first instances of a local tech company working to turn around the country’s falling birth rate.The travel group, which owns booking sites including Ctrip, Skyscanner and Qunar, said it would pay out Rmb10,000 in annual bonuses to staff for each new child until the age of five.
中国在线旅行服务公司携程集团(Trip.com)准备提供10亿元人民币（合1.4亿美元）的现金补贴，以鼓励员工多生孩子。这是国内科技公司致力于扭转中国出生率下降趋势的首批事例之一。
China’s population fell last year for the first time in decades while its birth rate also declined sharply to the lowest point on record — 6.77 births for every 1,000 people, down from 10.41 in 2019.
旗下拥有携程(Ctrip)、天巡(Skyscanner)和去哪儿(Qunar)等订票、订房网站的这家旅游集团称，员工每新生育1个孩子，将获得每年1万元人民币的现金补贴，直到孩子满5岁。
The scale and speed of the country’s demographic decline threatens to outpace similar crises in other ageing nations such as Japan and Italy. A UN study published this spring said that India was due to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by mid-2023.
去年，中国人口出现几十年来首次下降，出生率也大幅下降至有记录以来的最低点——每千人出生6.77人，低于2019年的10.41人。
