China Ends Two-Child Policy And Will Allow Couples To Have Three Children
On Monday, China announced that it has ended its two-child policy and will allow couples to have three children.
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The major shift to allow each couple to have three children as the country tries to cope with an aging population, was approved by President Xi Jinping at a meeting of top Communist Party officials. This comes weeks after Beijing released its once-in-a-decade census that showed its population is growing at its slowest pace in decades.
“Birth policies will be further improved. Policy that allows a couple to have three children will be introduced with supporting measures,” China’s state-backed Xinhua News Agency reported Monday, citing a Politburo meeting held on Monday and chaired by Chinese President Xi Jinping. “This will improve the population structure of China,” Reuters quotes.
As the news site notes, among those measures, China will also lower educational costs for families. In addition to that, they will step up tax and housing support, guarantee the legal interests of working women and clamp down on “sky-high” dowries, it said, without giving specifics. It would also look to educate young people “on marriage and love,” Reuters reports.
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