China plans to end birth controls as demographic time bomb ticks

Baby bust pushes Beijing to reconsider decades-long policy

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China's steps to loosen birth restrictions have done little so far to lift the country's birthrate, even as Chinese live longer.

ISSAKU HARADA, Nikkei staff writer

BEIJING -- Chinese policymakers are considering dismantling the country's decades-old family-planning rules as births continue to fall despite last year's decision to allow couples to have up to two children.

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