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11/03/2015

Topic Reading-Vol.1301-11/3/2015

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
China to allow two children for all couples
Now you can have two children. A radical and long-expected change was suddenly announced by the nation’s top policy planning meeting, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
The famous one-child policy was officially in place since 1979, has prevented 400 million births. Parents have faced fines and other punishments for having more children.
The policy was relaxed in 2013, allowing pairs to have a second child if one the pair is a single child. However, this change hasn’t caused any surge in the number of new born babies because of the change in lifestyle and high education cost.
Gender selective abortions have been another cause of China's unusual gender imbalance. It is said that there are approximately 1.16 to 1.26 boys per girl, depending on the source of data. Men have difficulty finding their partners.
Enjoy reading and guessing how this policy change will affect the family planning of Chinese couples.

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