MOSCOW (Sputnik) – China’s Communist party has decided to allow all families to have two children, Xinhua reported Thursday.
“China abandons one-child policy, allows two kids for all couples,” Xinhua said on its Twitter account.
China’s shift to a two-child policy comes after more than three decades of strict one-child regulations to slow down the surge in population numbers and its rapid aging.
The one-child policy came into effect under Communist Party leader Mao Zedong in 1976.
