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CHINA TO ABOLISH 1-CHILD POLICY, ALLOW 2 CHILDREN
     2015-October-30  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    CHINA will ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children after decades of the strict one-child policy, the Party said Thursday.

    The announcement was made at the close of a key Party meeting focused on financial reforms and maintaining growth between 2016 and 2020 amid concerns over the country’s slowing economy.

    The change of policy is intended to balance population development and address the challenge of an aging population, according to a communique issued after the meeting.

    The proposal must be approved by the top legislature before it is enacted.

    The policy is a major liberalization of the country’s family planning restrictions, already eased in late 2013 when China said it would allow more families to have two children if one of them is an only child.

    A growing number of scholars had urged the government to reform the rules, introduced in the late 1970s to prevent population growth spiralling out of control, but now regarded as outdated and responsible for shrinking China’s labor pool.

    For the first time in decades the working age population fell in 2012, and China could be the first country in the world to get old before it gets rich.

    China’s family planning policy was first introduced in the late 1970s to rein in the surging population by limiting most urban couples to one child and most rural couples to two children, if the first child born was a girl. The policy was later relaxed to say that any parents could have a second child if they were both only children.

    About 100 million Chinese couples will be eligible to have a second child, according to Yuan Xin, a scientist at Nankai University who sits on an expert panel of the National Health and Family Planning Commission.(SD-Xinhua)

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