China to Ease One-child Policy Early Next Year

Changes to China's strict one-child policy, which will allow more parents to have a second child, will begin to roll out early next year, state media said.   The policy change is expected to go into force in some areas of China in the first quarter of 2014, Yang Wenzhuang, a director at the National Health and Family Planning Commission, told the official Xinhua news agency.   Beijing said last month it would allow millions of families to have two children, the most radical...

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