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China to Allow Married Couples to Have Up to Three Children as Birth Rate Continues to Fall

HeadlineJun 01, 2021

China’s government is relaxing reproductive limits to allow married couples to have up to three children. It’s the biggest change to China’s population control laws since the lifting of the one-child policy in 2016. A recent census showed a rise in the proportion of elderly people in China as the birth rate continued to fall, triggering fears that a shrinking labor force and aging population could damage China’s economy. 

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