The Chinese government will allow couples to have three children, according to state-run news agency Xinhua, the latest easing of strict family planning policies in a move designed to combat the country's aging population.
The Chinese Communist Party's top leadership made the decision at a meeting on Monday, state media said, in a move designed to combat the country's aging population. State media did not say when the new policy would be implemented.It comes just three weeks after Beijing published its 2020 census, which showed China's population was growing at its slowest rate in decades. According to China's National Bureau of Statistics, the population rose by just 5.
In an attempt to avoid a demographic crisis, the Chinese government announced in 2015 it would loosen the birth restrictions to allow up to two children per family.State-run media tried to drum up support for the campaign. In 2018, Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily published a full-page column titled,"Giving birth is a family matter and a national issue, too.
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