My Story, China to keep ‘one child’ policy

SHANGHAI: China, the world's most populous country with more than 1.3 billion people, will maintain its strict 'one-child' policy, state media said on Sunday, despite calls for the rules to be relaxed.

The population control measure has prevented almost half a billion births since it was introduced in 1979, Chinese experts claim.

But it has turned into a demographic time bomb as the population ages, storing up huge economic and social problems for the country as well as fostering a gender imbalance.

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