One-child Policy China

China has further relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have a maximum of three children after a recent census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media Xinhua reported Monday.

China appears poised to scrap its two-child policy, with a state-run newspaper Monday citing a draft civil code that would overhaul decades of controversial family-planning rules.

Nearly two years after China got rid of its one-child policy, a city in China has a similar policy but for a different section of the population - its canines.

What's the most populous nation in the world? For years, the answer to that question was simple and rarely disputed: China. But this week an academic has sparked widespread discussion around the world by making a bold claim - that China's official population estimates were wrong and in fact India was now the world's largest country.

As soon as China abandoned its one-child policy a year ago, Zheng Xiaoyu and her husband started trying for a sibling for their nine-year-old son.

The theory that China's one-child policy has led to about 30 to 60 million "missing girls" which has created a gender imbalance in the world's most populous country is likely far overblown, a new study claims.

Chinese parents who bore children outside the country's one-child policy have protested outside the family planning commission in a bid to have their fines canceled.

Married couples in China will from today be allowed to have two children, after concerns over an ageing population and shrinking workforce ushered in an end to the country's controversial one-child policy.

China will allow millions of unregistered citizens -- many of them children born in violation of the one-child policy -- to obtain documents vital to secure education and health services long denied to them, state media reported.

Wan Changru's 6-year-old daughter collects passes - for her dance school, English lessons and other extra-curricular classes, anything bearing her name that she can pretend is an identity card.

China ordered local family planning agencies to keep enforcing the country's one-child policy, undercutting one province's plans to start letting parents expand their families now, state media said.

China must continue to enforce its one-child policy until new rules allowing all couples to have two children go into effect, the top family planning body said.

China's population is expected to reach 1.45 billion by 2030 following its move to scrap the three-decades-old one-child policy and permit all couples to have a second child, a senior official said today.

China announced the end of its hugely controversial one-child policy today, after decades of strict, sometimes brutal enforcement left it with an ageing population and shrinking workforce, heightening the challenges of slowing growth.

When Chinese leaders convene this week for a four-day meeting on the future of the country's economy, the biggest news might have to do with babies. According to reports in Chinese media, the government may be ready to relax the notorious "one-child" policy, in existence since the late 1970s, and allow Chinese parents to have two kids.

China has further relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have a maximum of three children after a recent census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media Xinhua reported Monday.

China appears poised to scrap its two-child policy, with a state-run newspaper Monday citing a draft civil code that would overhaul decades of controversial family-planning rules.

Nearly two years after China got rid of its one-child policy, a city in China has a similar policy but for a different section of the population - its canines.

What's the most populous nation in the world? For years, the answer to that question was simple and rarely disputed: China. But this week an academic has sparked widespread discussion around the world by making a bold claim - that China's official population estimates were wrong and in fact India was now the world's largest country.

As soon as China abandoned its one-child policy a year ago, Zheng Xiaoyu and her husband started trying for a sibling for their nine-year-old son.

The theory that China's one-child policy has led to about 30 to 60 million "missing girls" which has created a gender imbalance in the world's most populous country is likely far overblown, a new study claims.

Chinese parents who bore children outside the country's one-child policy have protested outside the family planning commission in a bid to have their fines canceled.

Married couples in China will from today be allowed to have two children, after concerns over an ageing population and shrinking workforce ushered in an end to the country's controversial one-child policy.

China will allow millions of unregistered citizens -- many of them children born in violation of the one-child policy -- to obtain documents vital to secure education and health services long denied to them, state media reported.

Wan Changru's 6-year-old daughter collects passes - for her dance school, English lessons and other extra-curricular classes, anything bearing her name that she can pretend is an identity card.

China ordered local family planning agencies to keep enforcing the country's one-child policy, undercutting one province's plans to start letting parents expand their families now, state media said.

China must continue to enforce its one-child policy until new rules allowing all couples to have two children go into effect, the top family planning body said.

China's population is expected to reach 1.45 billion by 2030 following its move to scrap the three-decades-old one-child policy and permit all couples to have a second child, a senior official said today.

China announced the end of its hugely controversial one-child policy today, after decades of strict, sometimes brutal enforcement left it with an ageing population and shrinking workforce, heightening the challenges of slowing growth.

When Chinese leaders convene this week for a four-day meeting on the future of the country's economy, the biggest news might have to do with babies. According to reports in Chinese media, the government may be ready to relax the notorious "one-child" policy, in existence since the late 1970s, and allow Chinese parents to have two kids.