{"id":24196,"date":"2021-05-31T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T08:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=24196"},"modified":"2021-05-31T20:40:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T17:40:05","slug":"china-allows-couples-to-have-three-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/31\/china-allows-couples-to-have-three-children\/","title":{"rendered":"China Allows Couples To Have Three Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China has announced that it will allow each couple to have up to three children, marking the end of a strict two-child policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to state media outlet Xinhua, the change was approved by President Xi Jinping in a politburo meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It comes after a once-in-a-decade census showed that China&#8217;s population grew at its slowest pace in decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This added pressure on Beijing to boost measures for couples to have more babies and avert a population decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China&#8217;s census, released earlier this month, showed that around 12 million babies were born last year &#8211; a significant decrease from the 18 million in 2016, and the lowest number of births recorded since the 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was widely expected after the census data results were released that China would relax its family policy rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC World News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has announced that it will allow each couple to have up to three children, marking the end of a strict two-child policy. According to state media outlet Xinhua, the change was approved by President Xi Jinping in a politburo meeting. It comes after a once-in-a-decade census showed that China&#8217;s population grew at its slowest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":24199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-24196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24200,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24196\/revisions\/24200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}