Want China Times, Xinhua 2014-07-12
Twenty-nine of 31 provincial regions in the Chinese mainland have relaxed the decades-old one-child policy, allowing couples to have a second baby if either parent is an only child, said a senior family planning official on Thursday.
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| Pregnant Li Lei poses with her daughter Wang Lingxuan at their home in Hefei, May 10. (File photo/Xinhua) |
Twenty-nine of 31 provincial regions in the Chinese mainland have relaxed the decades-old one-child policy, allowing couples to have a second baby if either parent is an only child, said a senior family planning official on Thursday.
Eastern
China's Zhejiang province took the lead to green-light the relax in the policy
on Jan. 17 this year, while Xinjiang and Tibet have not made the move yet, said
Yang Wenzhuang, director-general of the Department of Community Family Planning
under the National Health and Family Planning Commission, at a press
conference.
As of the
end of May this year, about 271,600 couples have applied to give birth to a
second child, with 241,300 of them having been approved, according to Yang.
Last
December, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top
legislature, adopted the policy and entrusted provincial congresses and their
standing committees to make their own calls on implementation.
The move
followed steadily declining birth rates and changing demographics that have
reduced the working population.
Yang
dismissed worries that the new policy would bring about a baby boom.
China has
more than 11 million couples eligible to have a second child under the new
policy and about 60% of them are willing to give birth a second time, according
to a poll conducted by the commission last year.
"According
to our estimation, there will be an additional two million babies a year in the
next five years or even over a longer period of time," Yang said.
At present,
the government policy's influence on people's willingness to give birth is
dropping, with age and career prospects, housing and financial conditions all playing
a larger role, he added.
Yang said,
however, that the government will fine-tune the family planning policy based on
changes in the country's demographic and economic situation, but "there is
no timetable for allowing every couple to have a second child."
China has
about 150 million couples with only one child. There will be about 90 million
more babies if 70% of them give birth to another child, according to Yang.
"China's
birth level could see a major relapse if every couple is allowed to have a
second child," he said. "The population growth will have a big impact
on social and economic development."
The basic
family planning principle has not changed as China is still the world's most
populous country, Yang added.
China's
family planning policy, put in place in the late 1970s, is designed to curb
population growth.
There have
always been several exceptions to the rules. A couple could have two children
if neither parent had siblings or if either comes from an ethnic minority. Rural
couples
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Here is one that is a review. We keep bringing it up because Humans don't believe it. If you're going to start living longer, there are those who are frightened that there will be overpopulation. You've seen the way it is so far, and the geometric progression of mathematics is absolute and you cannot change it. So if you look at the population of the earth and how much it has shifted in the last two decades, it's frightening to you. What would change that progression?
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