FT Confidential ResearchEnding China's birth controls will not spark baby boom
Cost plays bigger role than state policy in deciding whether to have children
China's move to ease its one-child policy pushed up births in 2016, but the figure dropped last year.
FT Confidential Research
October 24, 2018 13:36 JST
China may scrap its notorious birth restrictions entirely as the leadership belatedly realizes that the country needs more babies. But getting the Communist Party out of the bedroom will not be enough to address China's demographic challenges, an FT Confidential Research survey of urban consumers shows.