China's falling births expose limits of 'two-child policy'

Effort to tackle graying population derailed by concern over education costs

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The end of China's one-child policy looks to do little for birth figures in the long run.

ISSAKU HARADA, Nikkei staff writer

BEIJING -- Births in China fell 630,000 in 2017, just one year after the government repealed its one-child policy, indicating that more action will be necessary than simply permitting more children to solve the challenges of an aging population.

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