Report: China may relax one-child policy

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China plans to relax its one-child policy this year to allow couples to have a second child as its earlier move to permit them to have a second child drew a limited response, official media reported.China is eager to reform its decades old one-child policy in view of the rapidly ageing population which has claimed to be around 200 million, raising concerns about rapid decline of work force. Online polls show that a majority of Chinese support the second-child policy, but analysts say they are concerned that young couples have already showed less interest in having more children, citing economic and other reasons.
An anonymous researcher, who reportedly participated in a National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) survey, told China Business News that the second-child policy can be applied “as early as the end of 2015 if everything goes well.”
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