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China has ended its additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear-long one-child additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear to allow all couples to have two children. The ruling Communist Party of China made the additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear on Thursday. The one-child policy, officially called the additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear planning policy, was a population control additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear that was introduced in 1979. Policy makers hoped to restrict the country's additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear population and therefore control additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear of poverty. It wasn't adhered to strictly and many exceptions were allowed. In 2007, around 36 per cent of China's population was subject to a additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear one-child restriction. An additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear 53 per cent was allowed to have a second child if the first child was a girl. The new two-child policy will reverse China's very low additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear rate.

The new two-child policy is expected to provide a additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear economic boost for China and prevent it from developing into an ageing additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear. China’s labour additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear reached a peak of 940 million in 2012. However, this decreased to 930 million in 2014 and was expected to fall by additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear 29 million by 2020. Predictions from Peking University are that there will be an additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear of 2.5 million extra newborns per additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear. This will result in more workers and an additional $11.8 billion in additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear consumption. Shares in many international baby goods additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear jumped by over 10 per cent after the additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear was announced. The new policy will affect around 100 million additionalannouncementannualanotheraveragecompaniescouplesdecadesfamilyfertilityforcehugemeasurenewspolicyratessocietystrictsurgingyear.