Have children

2009-7-23 | NEWSPAPER EDITION

THE Shanghai Population and Family Planning Commission is encouraging couples who are allowed to have a second child to do so.

Shanghai has no plan to loosen the requirements for having a second child because of population pressure, but a legal second child can help slow the aging of the population.

City home to 23m by 2020

SHANGHAI'S population is expected to grow to 19.5 million in 2010, about 3 percent more than last year. And by 2020, the city's total should hit 23 million, due to an increase in births, a large influx of new...