🇨🇳How does China mark What the law gives you after a child is born?

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China's maternity leave is set by Article 7 of the State Council's Special Rules on the Labour Protection of Female Employees: 98 days, of which up to fifteen may be taken before the birth; fifteen more for a difficult delivery; and fifteen more for each additional baby in a multiple birth. A miscarriage before four months carries fifteen days, and after four months forty-two. Who pays is in Article 8, and that is the real dividing line: the maternity allowance during the leave is paid by the maternity insurance fund for those enrolled in it, calculated on the employer's average monthly wage of the previous year; only for those not enrolled does the employer pay it directly at the pre-leave wage. In principle, then, the money does not come from the employer but from social insurance — the exact opposite of the American arrangement, which leaves the cost entirely to whatever the two sides negotiate. Provinces add their own extended childbirth leave on top, so the number in practice is often well above 98.