China considers loosening one-child policy



BEIJING: -- China’s one-child policy could soon change. The country of 1.3 billion people introduced its family planning rule in the late 1970s to control population growth.

Today, one in ten Chinese citizens is 65 or older. That proportion is expected to rise to about one-third by 2050 if China maintains its current policy.

In the meantime the working population is also aging, as Professor Wang Jun from Sun Yat-Sen University explained.

“Migrant workers and others in the working population are also aging, which may affect our country’s economic vitality. The situation can be improved to a certain extent by changing the birth policy,” he said.

A policy change two years ago allowed couples to have a second child if either parent was an only child.

Authorities guessed about two million more babies would be born annually, but the actual increase last year was only half a million. Many parents said they could not afford a second baby.


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The numbers of births by gender is very lop-sided. Many more males than females. How many were aborted/drowned/lost because of this policy? And how many males have no wives?

The problem is that China has a huge population, and for years the elite have had more than one child because they "won" the lottery for the right to have a second child many, many, many times.

It's a tough decision.

I can see a certain Minister of Tourism considering this not as a change in the policy of another govt but more of a future increase in tourist arrivals.

China not give a hoot about there people and having a child inducted every 15 minutes no wonder there promoting breeding now

I would visit this place if you paid me. The police are absolutely bongs and need to be realigned

Makes you wonder about the army