End of an era as China scraps one-child policy
Historic change but economists doubt new policy will quickly redress population imbalance
Beijing
CHINA has officially ended its one- child policy, according to a communiqué issued at the close of the fifth plenum of the Communist Party's Central Committee on Thursday night.
"China will allow all couples to have two children, abandoning its decades-long one-child policy," Xinhua News Agency reported, quoting the communiqué without providing any specific reason for the sudden change in policy.
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