Agency: One-child policy stays in effect for now
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China’s top family planning authority has said that its local affiliates must continue to implement the existing one-child policy until the new two-child policy is ratified by legislators.
Authorities in each province should not carry out the two-child policy “wilfully,” the National Health and Family Planning Commission said, refuting claims by an official who claimed that the new policy was effective as soon as it was announced.
“Those pregnant with a second child will not be punished as of today,” Zhan Ming, deputy director of the provincial health and family planning commission in central China’s Hunan Province, was quoted as saying by Hunan Daily last Friday.
The Communist Party on Thursday announced the abolition of its decades-old one-child policy at the close of a key Party meeting, in an attempt to balance population development and offset the burden of an aging demographic.
A final plan for the policy change will be ratified by the annual session of China’s top legislature in March.
The national family planning commission estimated that about 90 million families will qualify for the new two-child policy, which would help raise the population to an estimated 1.45 billion by 2030. China had 1.37 billion people at the end of last year.
The one-child policy was introduced in 1979 in an effort to rein in the surging population.
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