Tag: China population

• Tuesday, August 14th 2018 - 07:36 UTC

  The Year of the Pig for Chinese couples could mean a third child

  

  A series of postage stamps featuring two pig parents and three happy piglets has prompted speculation that China may be about to further ease its restrictions on the number of children to deal with its rapidly ageing population.

• Friday, October 30th 2015 - 07:48 UTC

  Chinese couples allowed to have a second child; policy was imposed in 1979 to slow population growth

  

  China has decided to end its decades-long one-child policy, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports. Couples will now be allowed to have two children, it said, citing a statement from the Communist Party. The controversial policy was introduced nationally in 1979, to slow the population growth rate.