China one-child policy to end

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CNN:

Steven Jiang and Susannah Cullinane

October 29, 2015

 

 

(CNN)China will allow two children for every couple, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Thursday, a move that would effectively dismantle the remnants of the country's one-child policy that had been eased in recent years.

 

 

"To promote a balanced growth of population, China will continue to uphold the basic national policy of population control and improve its strategy on population development," Xinhua reported, citing a communique issued by the ruling Communist Party. "China will fully implement the policy of 'one couple, two children' in a proactive response to the issue of an aging population."

 

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"China has already begun to feel an unfolding crisis in terms of its population change," Wang Feng, a professor at Fudan University and a leading demographic expert on China, told McKenzie earlier this year.

 

"History will look back to see the one-child policy as one of the most glaring policy mistakes that China has made in its modern history."

 

Wang said the one-child policy was ineffective and unnecessary, since China's fertility rates were already slowing by the 1980s.

 

H/T Power Line

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