Reuters, 29/10 13:56 CET
By Megha Rajagopalan and Koh Gui Qing
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will
ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two
children after decades of a strict one-child policy, the ruling
Communist Party said on Thursday, a move aimed at alleviating
demographic strains on the economy.
The policy is a major liberalisation of the country’s
family planning restrictions, already eased in late 2013 when Beijing
said it would allow more families to have two children when the parents
met certain conditions.
A growing number of scholars had urged the government to
reform the rules, introduced in the late 1970s to prevent population
growth spiralling out of control, but now regarded as outdated and
responsible for shrinking China’s labour pool.
For the first time in decades the working age population
fell in 2012, and China, the world’s most populous nation, could be the
first country in the world to get old before it gets rich.
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Source: Euronews
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