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[h=4]State media: China abandons one-child policy[/h]More than 30<span style="color: Red;">*</span>years after China imposed its controversial “one-child” policy,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Chinese state media<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reported Thursday that it would be scrapped.
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After more than three decades of imposing a limit of one child per family, China is allowing all couples to have two children.
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China announced the end of its hugely controversial one-child policy on Oct. 29.(Photo: AFP, Getty Images)
More than 30<span style="color: Red;">*</span>years after China imposed its controversial “one-child” policy,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Chinese state media<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reported Thursday that it would be scrapped.
The Xinhua news agency<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said China's ruling Communist Party decided that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>all couples would now be allowed to have two kids.
The party made the announcement in an official communique, Xinhua said. It said the decision to remove remaining restrictions that limited couples to a single child was made "to improve the balanced development of (China's) population."
The restrictions<span style="color: Red;">*</span>were introduced in 1980<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to aggressively cap<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the number of children Chinese couples could<span style="color: Red;">*</span>have in an attempt to reduce the burden on resources amid the country's rapidly expanding population.
But in recent years the policy has been<span style="color: Red;">*</span>gradually relaxed as the country<span style="color: Red;">*</span>has experienced three decades of economic growth, and as it struggles<span style="color: Red;">*</span>with an aging population.
Younger generations also feel less compelled to accept high levels of state involvement in their private lives.
The United Nations estimates that because of China's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>declining birth rate its population will age faster than many other developing countries and that this decline will not stabilize before the middle of the 21st century.
Within seven years, India's population (1.31 billion) is expected to surpass China's (1.38 billion), according to the U.N.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>China<span style="color: Red;">*</span>is currently the world's most populous nation.
In Beijing alone, more than 53,000 couples had applied for the right to have a second child after the capital city altered its birth control policy early last year, Xinhua said. Of those, 48, 392 couples were approved, it said.
USA TODAY
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Contributing: Hannah Gardner in Beijing;<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Hjelmgaard reported from Berlin
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