Question: Recently, China’s famous “one child policy” has been terminated by the country, how many children have been granted permission by now?
(a) Four
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Voluntarily
Ans (b)
Related facts:
• On 29 October 2015, The ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) has announced to abandon its three decades-long one-child policy in this regard an official communique has been issued at the end of party’s 4 day plenary session .
• With this decision China has allowed all citizens couples to have two babies.
• The one-child policy was introduced in 1979 in China. The decision was taken to curb the rapid population growth. Officially it began in 1980.
• Under this family planning policy families could have two children if their first-born is a daughter.
• In rural areas, in families where both parents are the only children can have an extra child.
• The one-child policy was further loosened in November 2013 after that couples are allowed to have two children if one of them is an only child.
• Now, Decision to abandon the one child policy is taken to overcome demographics problem, especially of gender and age ratio that the country is facing.
Reference:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mazur-population-bomb-defused-20151103-story.html
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2015/11/china_changes_o100601.html
http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-abandons-one-child-policy-1446116462
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/29/asia/china-one-child-policy/