China on Thursday said there is no specific timetable for fundamental reforms in its controversial one child policy, a move which will allow couples to have a second child in the world’s most populous nation.
The government will closely monitor the demographic situation and improve the family planning policy based on the changes, li Bin, chief of the National Health and Family Planning Commission said.
li confirmed that eight provinces have given green light to the policy allowing families to have two children if one of the parents was an only child.
last December, China’s legislature, National People’s Congress, adopted the policy and entrusted provincial congresses and their standing committees to make their own calls on implementation.