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New 'two-child' rules to start from early 2014

Starting early next yearChinese couples are expected to be allowed to have a second child ifeither the father or mother is themselves an only childsaid a senior family planning official onSaturday.

Yang Wenzhuangdirector of the family planning instruction department of the National Healthand Family Planning Commissionmade the remarks during an interview with China CentralTelevision.

"The latest relaxation of the family planning policy will probably be implemented early next yearafter local administrations finish preparations and local legislatures give the final pass byamending the regulation," he said.

Under previous family planning rulesin urban areascouples could only have two children if boththe father and mother were only children.

The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committeewhichended on Nov 12, decided to relax the policy by allowing couples to have a second child if one ofthe parents is the only child in his or her family.

MeanwhileYang urged education and healthcare institutions to prepare properly to meet therising demand for services resulting from an increased birthrate after the policy is implemented.

"Communication and coordination among related administrations needs to be furtherstrengthened to ensure that expectant mothers and newborn babies will get the quality servicesand care they need," he said.

According to Yangit is up to local administrations to arrange the exact timescale forimplementing the policyaccording to specific circumstances.

"But there shouldn't be a major time gap in introducing the new rule from region to region," hesaid.

MoreoverYang asked willing couples to carefully plan the timing of their second babystatingthat "there is no need to rush as the policy will be a long-standing one on the mainland".

Previous assessment work conducted by the commission found that the new policy would see anestimated 15 million to 20 million couples eligible for a second child.

About 50 to 60 percent of such couples are willing to have a second childaccording to a recentpoll by the commission.

According to Yangabout 2 million more babies are expected to be born each year due to thepolicy relaxationbut he says the increase "will not cause major pressure on healthcare,education and other public resources".

In the long runthe new policy is expected to help facilitate family developmentpromotehappiness and increase the ability of families to care for the elderlyhe said.

Analysts said the reform comes at the right time to help China address the issue of an increasingpopulation imbalancewhereby the proportion of elderly people is rising relative to youngergenerations.

By the end of last yearChina had about 194 million people aged 60 and older on the mainland,making it the country with the largest elderly population in the worldaccording to the NationalBureau of Statistics of China.

More importantly, "the new policy better meets and respects public expectations", Yang added.

Zhai Zhenwudirector of the School of Sociology and Population Studies at Renmin University ofChinasaid that China's family planning policy had always been dynamic and subject toadjustments according to new situations.

"The latest changethe most substantial one in the past 30 yearswill lay the foundations forfuture efforts to further fine-tune the country's birth rules," said Zhai.


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