By Reuters Staff 4 Min Read BEIJING (Reuters) - Married Chinese couples can have up to three children, China announced on Monday, in a major shift from the limit of two after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world’s most populous country. Children play next to adults at a park in Beijing, China June 1, 2021. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang The cost of raising a child in urban China has deterred many would-be parents, and China’s fertility rate has fallen to just 1.3 children per woman, despite Beijing’s scrapping of the one-child policy in 2016. Below are some of the costs of raising a child in China’s big cities.