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Chinese couples not keen on more children

Author
AAP,
Publish Date
Thu, 30 Oct 2014, 9:22PM

Chinese couples not keen on more children

Author
AAP,
Publish Date
Thu, 30 Oct 2014, 9:22PM

Fewer Chinese couples applied to have a second child than expected after a relaxation of the country's "one child" policy.

The world's most populous country has restricted most families to a single child since the late 1970s, but the Communist party said in November couples would be allowed to have two offspring so long as one of the parents is an only child.

Authorities had expected the change to result in more than two million extra births a year.

But out of more than 11 million couples eligible, only 700,000 had applied for permission by the end of August.

 

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