According to a recent local population and family planning conference, Qingdao will launch a series of family planning programs, further implement the bearing and rearing better children policies and improve the health of the newborns.

　　The loca l government hopes to control the size of the urban population within 7.76 million, the birth rate within 11.6 per thousand and the natural population growth rate within 5 per thousand by the end of this year.