AFP: China allows couples to have three children: state media
China has relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media reported Monday, further unwinding four decades of controls in the world's most populous nation which have strangled the birthrate.
For almost 40 years, China enforced a controversial "one-child policy" — one of the strictest family planning regulations worldwide — which was relaxed in 2016 to a "two-child policy" due to widespread concerns over an ageing workforce and economic stagnation.
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WNU Editor: All my friends and contacts in China are telling me the same thing. The culture has changed, and the young are not interested in having three or more children let alone two .... ‘Too much of a burden’: Chinese couples react to three-child policy (The Guardian).
More News On China Allowing Couples To Have Three Children
China to support couples having third child in response to aging population -- CGTN
China wants couples to have more kids. Chinese people are less enthusiastic. -- CNBC
China to allow couples to have up to three children in attempt to reverse falling birth rates -- CNN
China faces strains as population ages, birth rate falls -- AP
5 comments:
Dystopian hellscape where a government tells you how many children you can have
I can't have kids.
When Obungler gave Iran all the nuclear bombs it made me super gay.
Thankfully you're doing a wonderful job of it too!
Just when China desperately needs new birth to stave off the final reckoning, their own population gives the Chicomms the middle finger.
GOOD,
R,
Well, there is something Chinese's will never tell because that's make them at risk: why giving birth to a child who will have a future under "Big Brother" more and more demanding.
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