The new "condom tax" will mean a 13 percent increase in the price of most products within the category starting at the turn of the year.
It is the first time in over three decades that China, which had a strict one-child policy until 2016, has introduced a similar tax on contraceptives.
In another move to boost childbearing in China, the country announced in July that it would offer parents an annual subsidy of around 5,000 kronor per child under the age of three. By then, the country's population had declined for three consecutive years, and according to UN demographic models, the population could decline from today's 1.4 billion to 800 million by 2100.
