China

China must take stock of its birth-planning policies and learn from the past




With “birth planning” fading from Beijing’s vocabulary as couples are now allowed to have three children, it is time for Chinese authorities to conduct a thorough review.One perspective among analysts is that China’s family-planning policy – in reality, its stringent birth restrictions – helped facilitate the country’s economic rise by staving off a “population explosion”.The restrictions are said to have reduced births by 400 million and kept China’s population from surpassing 1.7 billion…



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