China on Friday, announced to lift it's decades long policy of one-child-to one person, allowing couples to have two children if they wish, which was approved at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee held from Nov. 9 to 12 in Beijing.
the policy will keep China's birth rate at a stable level, said Guo Zhenwei, a family-planning official with the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
To ensure coordinated economic and social development, the population size for China should be kept at about 1.5 billion, said Guo, citing the results of a study sponsored by the State Council, China's cabinet.
China should keep its total fertility rate at around 1.8, and the current rate is between 1.5 to 1.6, allowing the country to maneuver its population policy, according to Guo.
The policy will be slightly relaxed so that couples will be allowed to have two children if one of the parents was an only child, as reported by Xinhua . Currently, both parents must be sole children to be eligible for a second child.
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