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China Allows Couples to Have More Children - Now It’s Three

© AP Photo / Ng Han GuanA couple takes a selfie amongst lit heart shaped balloons on Chinese Valentine's Day which coincides with the third day of the Chinese Lunar New Year in Beijing on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021.
A couple takes a selfie amongst lit heart shaped balloons on Chinese Valentine's Day which coincides with the third day of the Chinese Lunar New Year in Beijing on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021.  - Sputnik International, 1920, 31.05.2021
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It was widely expected that Beijing would change its family policy rules after the recent census results.

Chinese President Xi Jinping approved, on Monday, the new policy in a politburo meeting, which allows couples to have up to three children; the previous policy, allowed them only two.

In this photo taken Thursday, July 25, 2013, a nurse holds Baby Liang in a hospital where she was born in Beijing - Sputnik International, 1920, 11.05.2021
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China’s Census Reveals Slowest Population Growth in Decades and Hints at Potential Crises
The move comes after decennial census data, released earlier this month, showed a decline in births and the slowest population growth rate recorded.

The Chinese government ended its one-child policy in 2016, allowing couples to have two children. The reform, however, failed to reverse the nation’s birth rate decline in general.

China’s controversial one-child policy had been set up in 1980 after a decade-long two-child policy to curb the rapid growth of the country’s population.

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