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China Loosening One Child Rule?
September 28, 2010
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"China's sometimes brutal one-child policy is expected to be loosened next year as policy advisers come to grips with the implications of having one of the world's most rapidly ageing populations."  The Sydney Morning Herald reported that...

"... five provinces are to relax the policy next year and the trial may spread nationwide by 2013 or 2014, at which point the country's working-age population will have stopped growing.  Already the one-child policy has accelerated the onset and severity of labour shortages in coastal provinces. And an associated rise in abortions and even infanticide has twisted the gender balance so that last year there were 119 boys born for every 100 girls. 

"While no official announcement has been made, a number of family planning experts expect a pilot policy will soon permit a second birth in families where at least one spouse is an only child....  After 2025 the working age population is expected to shrink by about 10 million people a year, placing huge strains on the social security system and crimping the potential growth in gross domestic product."


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Nirmal Kumar Ghosh · November 22, 2010
Shishu Vikash Kendra
 Kolkata, West Bengal, India


One child rule is the best policy in the nation for all round development.



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