CHINA has no plan to allow couples to have as many kids as they want after changing the rules to allow all couples to have two children rather than one, a health official said yesterday.

    China’s population reached 1.375 billion last year, said Li Bin, director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, at a news conference on the sidelines of the annual session of the top legislature. It has to bear in mind its large population and stress on resources when making decisions.

    Starting this year, China has relaxed its decades-old family planning policy to allow all married couples to have two children.

    “We don’t have a specific timetable” to abolish the family planning policy, “a basic State policy,” Li told reporters.

    The two-child policy will see 3 million more children born in China every year.(Xinhua)