China will allow all couples to have two children, abandoning its decades-long one-child policy, according to a statement today by the Communist Party.
Xinhua said on its microblog that the decision to allow all couples to have two children was “to improve the balanced development of population” and to deal with an aging population, AP reports.
The decision does away with an unpopular policy that was long considered one of the party’s most onerous intrusions into family life.
The decision was contained in a Communist Party communique that followed a meeting of the party’s Central Committee on planning the country’s economic and social development through 2020.
In recent years, it has been unusual for such plenary sessions to result in major decisions. They generally focus on economic topics and there was no indication that this one would take action on the one-child policy.
China will target “medium-high economic growth” in the five years from 2016, according to a communique following a key meeting of the Communist Party today.
Leaders decided at the four-day Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee that China will aim to double its 2010 GDP and per-capita income of both urban and rural residents by 2020 by ensuring more balanced, inclusive and sustainable development.
The country will also promote greater sophistication in its industrial sector and significantly raise the contribution of consumption to economic growth, according to the communique.
The urbanization ratio calculated based on the number of registered residents will also rise at a faster pace, it said.
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