China to ease one-child per couple family planning policy

Beijing: China on Monday initiated steps to "adjust" its controversial 'one-child' family planning policy to address serious demographic challenges and allow millions of couples to have two children in the world's most populous nation. 

A bill was tabled in Parliament which seeks to allow couples to have two children if either of them is an only child, considered the most significant liberalisation of China's strict one-child policy in nearly three decades. 

Source: The Times of India
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