China to allow couples have three children in attempt to slow declining birth rates ‘Three-child policy’ intended to ‘maintain China’s natural advantage in human resources’
about 7 hours ago Updated: about an hour ago Yuan Yang in Beijing
‘Allowing every couple to have three children and implementing related support policies will help improve the population’s structure,’ the Communist Party’s politburo says. Photograph: Noel Celis/AFP via Getty
China will allow couples to have three children, loosening its historic family planning policies in the face of a looming demographic crisis just weeks after reporting that its population grew at the slowest rate in decades.