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Confronted By Aging Population China Allows Couples To Have Three Children

Facing a declining birthrate, China will allow married couples to have up to three children. This raises the previous ceiling of two children.
Allowing couples in China to have up to three children rather than two will help the country counteract a population that's shifting towards the elderly, the government says.

BEIJING - China will now allow married couples to have up to three children as the country attempts to halt a declining birthrate.

The policy is a dramatic change for a country which, less than a decade ago, and of women who had more than one child. The new three

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