{"id":20939,"date":"2015-10-31T11:10:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T11:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/what-will-two-child-china-look-like\/"},"modified":"2015-10-31T11:09:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T11:09:40","slug":"what-will-two-child-china-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/what-will-two-child-china-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What will two-child China look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"

{From street corners to social media, Chinese have hailed the ending of the country’s one-child policy — but it seems few rushed to their bedrooms to celebrate.}<\/p>\n

“I want to have a second child but I won’t,” said Wendy Zhang, a 33-year-old pharmacist in Xi’an. “We both have to work, so no one would have time to take care of our children and our life would be too stressful.”<\/p>\n

China announced that all couples would now be eligible for a second child on Thursday, reversing a controversial 35-year-old policy, but it seems that it may not have an immediate impact.<\/p>\n

Some 100 million couples are expected to benefit from the relaxation of the rule, but of the more than 50,000 people responding to an Internet poll posted by a journalist on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, only 20% said they both wanted, and could afford, a second child.<\/p>\n

It’s a sentiment shared by Zhou Juan, a 28-year-old vegetable seller.<\/p>\n

“My kid is only three and I have spent at least 80,000 yuan raising her.”<\/p>\n

But for others the policy shift simply came too late.<\/p>\n

“I would want three kids if I had been allowed! But it was in the 1980s — raising kids was much easier then,” said Tian Xiling, a retired worker.<\/p>\n

“Now my son can’t afford a second child. Food, clothing, education… all cost a fortune today.”<\/p>\n

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