China to ease one-child policy
China will relax its hugely controversial one-child policy, state media said on Friday, in a major policy shift announced days after a meeting of the country's top Communist Party leaders.
(AFP) China will relax its hugely controversial one-child policy, state media said on Friday, in a major policy shift announced days after a meeting of the country's top Communist Party leaders.
The change to China's family-planning policy will let couples have two children if one of the parents is an only child, state news agency Xinhua reported, citing a "key decision" made by leaders at this week's gathering, known as the Third Plenum.
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