Beijing approves amended 1-child policy
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Beijing’s legislature yesterday approved the city’s amended one-child policy, making it the fifth provincial area in the country to relax the decades-old restriction.
Under the amendment, couples with either spouse from a one-child family with Beijing residence document, or hukou, can have a second child, the Beijing Health and Family Planning Commission said yesterday.
A women must be at least 28 years of age or the first child must be 4 years old or above, family planning officials said.
The new rules take effect next Saturday.
Couples who plan to have a second child can apply for the birth approval, including those who were already pregnant before yesterday. That effectively means the second child born after the amendment is legal, said Fang Laiying, the commission director.
Fang predicted a baby boom in the next 10 months, but he wasn’t worried about bed shortage in hospitals. The maternity hospitals in Beijing can cope with the year-on-year increase of 40,000 to 50,000 newborns.
Beijing can deliver 260,000 newborns every year, according to The Beijing News.
The city government will provide support by improving hospitals, nurseries and primary schools, and by protecting women’s right to maternity leave, said Wang Delin, vice chairman of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Beijing People’s Congress.
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