China’s ruling Communist Party announced to abolish the country’s decades-old one-child policy and allow all couples to have two children, removing remaining restrictions that limited many urban couples to only one, the official Xinhua News Agency said on 29th October 2015. China’s ruling Communist Party announced to abolish the country’s decades-old one-child policy and allow all couples to have two children.

Child policy is the family planning policy was a population control policy of China and was introduced in 1978 and enacted/implemented in 1980. The policy was introduced to alleviate social, economic and environmental problems in China.

China to abolish one-child policy, allowing all couples to have 2 children:

The decision, explained Beijing, was to “improve the balanced development of China population”.  Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride, reporting from Beijing, said the one-child policy was no longer viable for the country.

China needs more people for joining workforce, So Communist Party of China has changed one-child policy to a two-child policy as the country is looking further ahead that China to have larger families. The total fertility rate in Vietnam dropped from 5.6 in 1979 to 3.2 by 1993, implying the two-child policy was successful in containing the population growth. This policy has been implemented in 29 out of the 31 provinces, with the exceptions of Xinjiang and Tibet. Under this policy, approximately 11 million couples in China are allowed to have a second child.

“Two-child policy was one of the widely anticipated measures that were expected from the five-year plan and I think it will be broadly welcomed. The one-child policy is an unpopular measure here in China. We have seen children growing up in isolation because of it,” correspondent said.

Contraceptive policy made sense 20 years ago, it has a significant impact on the working population.

Chief Executive Truuong Tan San stressed the need for continued diligence in population control and stated that the population of Vietnam should be 100 million people by 2020. One-child policy have Change to two child policy because to the growing ageing of China’s population. Critics of China’s reproductive restrictions welcome the policy change, but claim that the move to the two-child policy will not end forced sterilizations, forced abortions, the male-oriented gender imbalance, or government control over birth permits.