In major policy shift, China allows couples to have three children
China said that married couples can now have up to three children, a policy shift from the existing limit of two after the latest data showed a decline in births in the country, Reuters said on Monday.
In a major policy shift, China said that each couple would be allowed to have up to three children. Earlier, the existing limit was two children.
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The development comes after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world's most populous country.
It was announced during a politburo meeting convened by Chinese President Xi Jinping, reported the official news agency Xinhua.
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The move is aimed to improve China's population structure and actively respond to the country's aging problem, reported Global Times.
In 2016, China had scrapped its decades-old one-child policy — imposed to control population explosion — with a two-child limit.
Early this month, China's once-in-a-decade census reported that the population increased at its slowest rate during the last decade since the 1950s.
The data showed a fertility rate of 1.3 children per woman for 2020 alone, on par with aging societies like Japan and Italy.
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