Economics
China State Researcher Predicts End to Child Birth Restrictions
- Latest sign policy makers reconsidering limits on family size
- Zhang called similar shift to two-child cap three years ago
Children play inside an indoor playground at a mall in Shanghai.
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A Chinese government researcher called for lifting limits on the number of children a family can have, in the latest sign that policy makers are considering ending decades of restrictive birth-control policies.
“We need to lift restrictions on births completely,” Zhang Juwei, director of the state-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of Population and Labor Economics, said in an interview published Friday in China Newsweek magazine. “It has become an irresistible trend to allow people to make their own decisions on fertility, which will be the direction for the adjustment of population policy in the future.”