One-child policy ‘set to be relaxed’
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Couples with just one spouse from a one-child family may be allowed to have two children, according to Caixin.com.
The magazine’s website said the policy was decided at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee in Beijing, and would be announced soon.
Caixin.com said the move would be an important step in loosening China’s strict one-child policy, which currently allows only a few exceptions.
Couples who are both from one-child family can have a second child as can couples whose first child has a non-inherited disability.
In rural areas, couples are allowed a second child if the first is a girl.
The one-child policy came into force in the late 1970s and the nation’s birth rate has since dropped to a very low level.
According to the 2010 national census, national total fertility, or the number of children a woman will deliver in her lifetime, was just 1.18, half the international level and lower than developed countries’ 1.7.
In cities, the rate was 0.88, according to the census.
Population experts have long been calling for the government to relax the country’s family planning rules, maintaining that allowing more couples to have a second child wouldn’t lead to a population explosion but rather help to improve the population structure and support sustainable development in the nation.
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