China to allow couples to have a third child
- Census data from China recently, showed that the country's population growth rate is the slowest since the 1950s and is declining.
- Since then, China has announced to allow each married couple to have three children.
- Five years ago in 2016, China changed its controversial 'one-child policy' for the first time and imposed a two-child limit.
- China embarked upon its one-child policy in 1980 when the Communist Party was concerned that the country’s growing population, which at the time was approaching one billion, would impede economic progress.
- Several methods were adopted to implement this policy, which included financial incentives for families to have a child, making contraceptives widely available and imposing sanctions against policy violators, etc. Were.
- Fearing harm to economic development due to the rapidly increasing ageing population, the ruling Communist Party changed the 'one-child policy' to allow each married couple to have two children.