Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

China Ends One-Child Policy

Posted by timothy on from the kids-vs-the-state dept.

jones_supa writes: China has scrapped its one-child policy, allowing all couples to have two children for the first time since draconian family planning rules were introduced in 1979. The announcement followed a four-day Communist Party summit in Beijing where China's top leaders debated financial reforms and how to maintain growth at a time of heightened concerns over the economy. China will "fully implement a policy of allowing each couple to have two children as an active response to an ageing population," the party said in a statement published by Xinhua.

5 of 279 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Doesn't matter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have three kids (all born outside China) and we have been to China several times. It is surprising to see how many people come up and ask how much the "tax" was on the third one.

  2. Re:The population ponzi scheme... by gnupun · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Whats the solution? Wish I knew.

    Well, robots and automation in general, will replace need for more humans.

  3. Re:Logic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Because government policies can rarely be summed up in three words of a foreign language? There are many exceptions to the policy.

  4. Foreign policy affects by ISoldat53 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How will the past one child policy affect China's foreign policy? If a family only has only one child how ready are they to risk that child in a war? Are the parents who have only one child now of an age where they can affect national policy or are the present policy makers of a generation that was still able to have more than one and therefore more open to this risk? If there is an affect how will relaxing this policy affect China's foreign policy?

  5. Re:Doesn't matter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You know the Republic of China (Taiwan) is a sovereign state, right? Not under PRC control at all?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Did you mistype your point (2) and mean some actual part of the People's Republic of China?

    You should ask the Chinese Government about the status of the Provence of Taiwan :)

    From the wiki link
      The People's Republic of China (PRC) claims that the Republic of China government is illegitimate, referring to it as the "Taiwan Authority"

    While, I think Taiwan is it's own nation. I would not be surprised if the PRC passed laws/policies that read like they control the ROC