On February 24, the Information Office of Hunan Provincial Government held a press conference on the development plan of women and children in Hunan Province (2021-2025). At the meeting, Yi Lucy, deputy director of the Provincial Health Commission, introduced the important measures of the new plan in terms of women’s and children’s health and the specific measures to promote the implementation of the three child fertility policy.

Through unremitting efforts, the health level of women and children in Hunan Province has been continuously improved, and the core indicators of maternal and child health are significantly better than the national average. However, women’s and children’s health in Hunan Province is still facing the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development, especially with the adjustment of fertility policy, the demand for second and third child fertility increases, and the proportion of elderly pregnant women increases, which puts forward higher requirements for high-quality and balanced medical and health care services. Therefore, the new plan puts forward new requirements for the continuous improvement of women’s and children’s health services and sets a series of specific goals.

In the new “women’s planning”, it was put forward that “women’s whole life cycle will enjoy good health and health services. The maternal mortality rate will be controlled below 12/10 million, and the awareness of cervical cancer and breast cancer prevention and control of women will be significantly improved, and the goals of reducing maternal and child transmission of AIDS, syphilis and hepatitis B, promoting reproductive health care and health knowledge, and improving maternal and child health literacy level” will be achieved. We have set up “perfecting the system of safeguarding women’s health system, strengthening the construction of maternal and child health service system, implementing the health management of women’s life cycle, ensuring the safe delivery of pregnant women, improving the comprehensive prevention and treatment system of cervical cancer and breast cancer, and preventing and controlling the transmission of AIDS, syphilis and hepatitis B, improving the level of women’s reproductive health and improving women’s health literacy”. And other strategic measures.

In the new children’s program, Proposed “The ability of children’s medical and health care services has been significantly enhanced, and the level of children’s health has been continuously improved. The mortality of children under the age of 5, infants and newborns should be controlled below 6 ‰, 5 ‰ and 3 ‰ respectively. We should build and improve the prevention and control system of birth defects covering all stages of marriage, pregnancy, newborns and children, and prevent and control serious hazards such as birth defects, common diseases and malignant tumors of children The goal of “effective prevention and treatment of children’s health diseases” has set strategic measures such as “giving priority to ensuring children’s health, improving children’s health service system, strengthening children’s health care services and management, ensuring the safety and health of children under the age of 5, strengthening the comprehensive prevention and control of birth defects, strengthening the prevention and treatment of children’s diseases and improving children’s nutritional status”.

In order to promote the implementation of the “three child policy” in Hunan Province, the new plan also puts forward a series of requirements:

First, strengthen maternity security. Improve the service level of eugenics and child rearing, implement the maternity leave and spouse paternity leave system, and explore the implementation of parental parental leave; Improve and improve the maternity security system covering urban and rural women, explore the establishment of a multi-level maternity security system for urban and rural residents with basic medical insurance as the main body and maternity subsidies as supplements, and improve women’s maternity medical treatment and maternity subsidies; We will implement the special provisions on labor protection for female workers, regularly carry out special supervision on the protection of reproductive rights and interests of female workers, provide public services for reemployment training for women whose employment is interrupted due to childbirth, and create conditions for women’s career return and career development after childbirth.

The second is to strengthen the guarantee of parenting. Increase the supply of inclusive care institutions and kindergartens, promote the construction of standardized mother and child facilities by employers, and encourage employers to provide welfare care services for infants aged 1-3 in the workplace; Employers are encouraged to negotiate and determine flexible leave and flexible working methods conducive to taking care of infants and young children according to law.

Third, strengthen education security. Promote the early comprehensive development of children aged 0-3, build a high-quality public service system for preschool education, and constantly promote educational equity and the supply of high-quality educational resources.