{"id":11566,"date":"2021-05-31T08:41:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T08:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=11566"},"modified":"2021-05-31T08:41:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T08:41:10","slug":"china-allows-couples-to-have-up-to-three-children-in-major-policy-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/05\/31\/china-allows-couples-to-have-up-to-three-children-in-major-policy-change\/","title":{"rendered":"China allows couples to have up to three children in major policy change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-1 paragraph\" data-aa-component=\"paragraph\" data-allow-readmode=\"\">China has\u00a0relaxed its family planning policy\u00a0to allow couples to have a maximum of three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media Xinhua reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-1 paragraph\" data-aa-component=\"paragraph\" data-allow-readmode=\"\">For almost 40 years, China enforced a controversial \u201cone-child policy\u201d \u2014 one of the strictest family planning regulations worldwide \u2014 which was lifted in 2016 due to widespread concerns over an aging workforce and economic stagnation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-1 paragraph\" data-aa-component=\"paragraph\" data-allow-readmode=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11567\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/China-allows-couples-to-have-up-to-three-children-in-major-policy-change-rapidnews-dailyrapidnews.jpeg\" alt=\"China-allows-couples-to-have-up-to-three-children-in-major-policy-change-rapidnews\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/China-allows-couples-to-have-up-to-three-children-in-major-policy-change-rapidnews-dailyrapidnews.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/China-allows-couples-to-have-up-to-three-children-in-major-policy-change-rapidnews-dailyrapidnews-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/China-allows-couples-to-have-up-to-three-children-in-major-policy-change-rapidnews-dailyrapidnews-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/China-allows-couples-to-have-up-to-three-children-in-major-policy-change-rapidnews-dailyrapidnews-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-1 paragraph\" data-aa-component=\"paragraph\" data-allow-readmode=\"\">\u201cTo actively respond to the ageing of the population &#8230; a couple can have three children,\u201d Xinhua said, citing a Monday meeting of China\u2019s elite Politburo leadership committee hosted by President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-1 paragraph\" data-aa-component=\"paragraph\" data-allow-readmode=\"\">Despite government efforts to encourage childbirths,\u00a0China\u2019s annual births have continued to plummet\u00a0to a record low of 12 million in 2020, the National Bureau of Statistics said last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-1 paragraph\" data-aa-component=\"paragraph\" data-allow-readmode=\"\">China\u2019s fertility rate stands at 1.3 \u2014 below the level needed to maintain a stable population, the bureau revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-1 paragraph\" data-aa-component=\"paragraph\" data-allow-readmode=\"\">The once-in-a-decade 2020 census results published last month also showed that\u00a0China\u2019s population grew at its slowest rate since the 1960s, reaching 1.41 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-1 paragraph\" data-aa-component=\"paragraph\" data-allow-readmode=\"\">It comes alongside a sharp drop in the number of working-age people, once again raising fears of a looming demographic crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-1 paragraph\" 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