Tag: China second child

• 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.