China will allow couples to have up to 3 children amid worries that the number of working-age people in the country is falling too fast, state media reports.
The Communist Party has enforced birth limits since 1980 to restrain population growth, and the dwindling population is partially a result of its controversial one-child policy imposed in 1979.Rhea Mogul
Xinhua news agency reported that the change was approved during a Communist Party Politburo meeting chaired by Chinese President Xi Jinping.over the past decade while the number of people older than 65 rose, adding strain on the economy and society. The growth is its slowest in decades, and could pose a major threat to China’s ambitious economic goals, experts have warned.“Birth policies will be further improved.
Meanwhile, the number of older people also grew to 18.7 per cent of the total, up from 13.26 percent a decade ago and about 10 percent in 2000. “People are held back not by the two-children limit, but by the incredibly high costs of raising children in today’s China,” Yifei Li, a sociologist from NYU Shanghai, told Reuters. “An effective policy should have provided more social support and welfare. Raising the limit itself is unlikely to tilt anyone's calculus in a meaningful way.”
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