This should be really good news to those who were facing the prospects of hiding their pregnancies or having an abortion. I guess the Chinese have realized what their one-child policy has done to their population, they are faced with an aging population and an imbalance of males to females:
China may consider changing its one-child policy because it has succeeded in helping to slow population growth in the past three decades, a Chinese official said Sunday.
The policy, launched in the 1970s, has produced “very good results,” said Wu Jianmin spokesman for the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, an advisory body to parliament.
There would be an estimated 400 million more people in China without it, Wu said.
“The one-child policy was the only choice we had given the conditions when we initiated the policy,” Wu told reporters at a news conference the day before the CPPCC convened for its annual session. However, he added, “when designing a policy we need to take into consideration the reality.”
“So as things develop, there might be some changes to the policy and relevant departments are considering this,” Wu said without giving a timeline or details on which departments would be involved.