Despite massive publicity to the lifting of the one child policy being implemented since 1978, the two child rule has evoked less enthusiasm with official surveys indicating that people were not keen to have second child due to heavy costs involved in bringing up another child.
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Married couples in China are now allowed to have a second child, as the country officially ended its one-child policy on Sunday by passing a bill into law, AFP reported.
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As a result China’s population – the world’s largest at 1.37-billion – is now ageing rapidly, gender imbalances are severe, and its workforce is shrinking.
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Chinese lawmakers rubber-stamped the new legislation Sunday during a session of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, which governs the country’s laws, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
According to Lu Jiehua, a sociologist at Peking University, the policy will affect 100 million couples. China, now a nation of greater than 1.three billion people, instituted a analysis of 1 child per twosome to control population growth within the 1970s.
The ruling Communist Party had said that Beijing would loosen its decades-old one-child policy.
Human rights group Amnesty International issued a statement warning that the change in policy was “not enough”.
Beijing eased child birth regulations in 2013, allowing couples in several regions to have two children without paying fines if both parents were the only children in their families.
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“There are a lot of examples of domestic violence between family members, and also between people who cohabit”, Guo said at a news conference. Meanwhile, the working-age population, those aged between 15 and 59, fell by 3.71 million previous year – a trend that is expected to continue. China’s population now stands at 1.37B.
