mellowyellow
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China has relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, in a major policy shift to boost birthrate in the world’s most populous nation.
For nearly 40 years, China enforced a controversial “one-child policy” – one of the strictest family planning regulations worldwide – which was relaxed in 2016 to a “two-child policy” due to widespread concerns about an ageing workforce and economic stagnation.