China two-child policy to add 3 million babies a year: officials

China two-child policy to add 3 million babies a year: officials
Beijing (AFP) Nov 10, 2015 - Around three million extra babies will be born each year after Beijing abolished its hugely controversial "one child" policy to allow all couples to have two offspring, officials said Tuesday. Decades of strict, sometimes brutal enforcement left the world's largest population - 1.37 billion people - ageing rapidly and with a shrinking workforce that has heightened the challenges of slowing ... more

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