China has further relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have a maximum of three children after a recent census showed its population is rapidly aging, state media Xinhua reported Monday. “To actively respond to the aging of the population… a couple can have three children,” Xinhua said, citing a Monday meeting of China’s elite Politburo leadership committee hosted by President Xi Jinping.
China has further relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have a maximum of three children after a recent census showed its population is rapidly aging, state media Xinhua reported Monday. “To actively respond to the aging of the population… a couple can have three children,” Xinhua said, citing a Monday meeting of China’s elite Politburo leadership committee hosted by President Xi Jinping.