“China announced Thursday it would end its controversial “family planning policy,” better known to the West as the “one-child policy” that restricted Chinese citizens to one child per couple, the state newswire service Xinhua reported.
“The country will now allow couples to have two children, though it is unclear if there will be additional restrictions beyond that.
“The move is the ultimate step in a series of relaxations to the policy in recent years intended to promote a younger labor force.
“The one-child policy: The policy was introduced by the country’s ruling Communist leaders in 1979 in an effort to curb a population of nearly 1 billion.
“Like many undeveloped nations, previous eras of Chinese families typically had many children to support agriculture, serve as a hedge against high child mortality and were also useful for China’s armies.”
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