Events that will change China in 2015
- By Liu Qiang
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E-mail China.org.cn, December 17, 2015
Two-child policy
China will allow all couples to have two children, abandoning its decades-long one-child policy, the Communist Party of China (CPC) announced on October 29, 2015.
The change of policy is intended to balance population development and address the challenge of an aging population, according to a communique issued after the Fifth Plenum of the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
"The two-child policy realigns China's resource limitations with economic and social development. It will slow down but may not revert the aging population trend. We need to grow the labor force before it drops sharply. China used to rely on the population scale for cheap labor, but now we have to shift the focus to improving the labor quality. This is a new impetus for our economic growth," Chinese State Council advisor Ma Li said.
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| Yang Chenxi is looking at a mirror with her sister on Feb. 7, 2014. Her parents gave birth to their second kid after China loosened the one-child policy in 2013 to allow couples to have two children if one of them is an only child. (Xinhua photo) |
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