The easing of birth limits on families comes at a time when China faces a rapidly aging population and a sharp decline in births – but there are doubts about how effective it will prove.
China’s ruling Communist Party will allow couples in the country to have three children, state-run Xinhua news agency
The change was approved during a Communist Party politburo meeting on Monday chaired by Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of policies that will “actively respond to the aging population,” according to Xinhua., the Communist Party said in a statement that the three-child policy will be introduced with unspecified “supporting measures” and this will improve the “population structure” of the country.
Under the present two-child policy, fines of around $20,000 were imposed on couples having a third child.63%. That’s the share of China’s working-age population according to the country’s most recent census data
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