{"id":20895,"date":"2015-10-29T12:13:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T12:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/china-to-abolish-decades-old-one-child-policy\/"},"modified":"2015-10-29T12:12:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T12:12:47","slug":"china-to-abolish-decades-old-one-child-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/china-to-abolish-decades-old-one-child-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"China to abolish decades-old one-child policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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{ {{State news agency says restriction introduced in 1980 will be lifted, allowing all couples to have two children.}} }<\/p>\n

China’s ruling Communist Party has decided to abolish the country’s one-child policy and allow all couples to have two children, the official Xinhua News Agency said.<\/p>\n

It cited a communique issued by the ruling Communist Party on Thursday after a four-day meeting in Beijing to chart the course of the nation over the next five years.<\/p>\n

China is “abandoning its decades-long one-child policy”, Xinhua reported.<\/p>\n

The restriction was introduced in 1980 as a way to curb the population and limit demands for water and other resources.<\/p>\n

Roderic Wye, associate fellow at Chatham House’s Asia Programme, told Al Jazeera: “The importance is not so much democratic, but in the lifting of a highly restricted and coercive policy.<\/p>\n

“It’s going to be 20 years before it has a significant impact on the working population.”<\/p>\n

The controversial policy restricted most couples to only a single offspring, and for years authorities argued that it was a key contributor to China’s economic boom.<\/p>\n

But after years of strict, sometimes brutal enforcement by a dedicated government commission, China’s population – the world’s largest – is now ageing rapidly, gender imbalances are severe, and its workforce is shrinking.<\/p>\n

The concerns led to limited reforms in 2013, including allowing a second child for some couples in urban areas, but relatively few have taken up the opportunity.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride, reporting from Beijing, said the one-child policy was no longer viable for the country.<\/p>\n

“China needs more people joining the workforce, so there is the economic aspect looking further ahead that China needs to have larger families.<\/p>\n

“This was one of the widely anticipated measures that was expected from the five-year plan and I think it will be broadly welcomed. The one-child policy is an unpopular measure here in china. We have seen children growing up in isolation because of it,” our correspondent said.<\/p>\n

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