China may ease one-child policy after 2010.BEIJING, Nov. 7 Kyodo China may remove the ''one couple, one child'' policy after 2010 as its population growth has been well-controlled, with a birthrate birth·rate or birth rate n. The ratio of total live births to total population in a specified community or area over a specified period of time, often expressed as the number of live births per 1,000 of the population per year. of around 1%, a spokesman for the State Family Planning family planning Use of measures designed to regulate the number and spacing of children within a family, largely to curb population growth and ensure each family’s access to limited resources. Commission said Tuesday. The policy, introduced in 1980 to curb the strong rises in population in one of the world's most populous pop·u·lous adj. Containing many people or inhabitants; having a large population. [Middle English, from Latin popul countries, was a tentative tentative, adj not final or definite, such as an experimental or clinical finding that has not been validated. measure, Chen Shengli told reporters. Chen said the one-child policy The Planned Birth policy (Simplified Chinese: 计划生育; Pinyin: jìhuà shēngyù) is the birth control policy of the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC). was introduced on the premises of being effective for one generation -- about 30 years. Given the recent low population growth, however, the policy can be reviewed in 10 years from now, he said. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Chen, there is still strong preference for boys in rural areas as they can be work in farming, and in those areas couples are allowed even now to have another child if the first one is a girl. Couples in ethnic minority communities are also allowed to have more than one child. But in urban areas, the Chinese traditional respect of a large family has been tarnished. As a result, on national average, Chinese families have 1.97 children each at present. With that figure, the commission estimates China's population will reach 1.27 billion at the end of this year and increase to around 1.38 billion in 2010, Chen said. The figures compare with a peak of 1.6 billion in the 1940s. But the population is expected to decline after 2010 to 1.45 billion in the late 21st century, he said. |
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