BEIJING (Web Desk) – China is expected to introduce new regulation, under which all Chinese couples would be allowed to have two children, reported The Guardian.
This regulation could be implemented “as soon as the end of the year if everything goes well,” said a Chinese government source.
Chinese scholars and social sciences academicians believe the one-child policy “should have been abolished long ago”.
Beijing, which introduced the one-child policy in 1980, was quick to play down claims the two-child policy would be in place by the end of the year.
“No timetable has been set to allow all couples in the country to have a second child,” the National Health and Family Planning Commission insisted according to the state-run China Daily.
Moves to loosen strict birth control rules are a response to a demographic “time bomb” created by the one-child policy, which Beijing credits with preventing 400 million births.
