The decision comes more than five years after Beijing ended its one-child practice and allowed families to have two childrenChina will allow couples to have three children in a historic shift of its birth control policy as the country reckons with its slowest population growth in decades. The decision, made by the ruling party’s 25-member political bureau when it convened yesterday in Beijing, came more than five years after China ended its long-running one-child practice and permitted all Chinese families to have two children. SponsoredYet the two-child policy has failed to deliver a baby boom, and Beijing has found itself grappling with the challenges of a rapidly greying society in which there may not be enough young workers to support the elderly. Those who are 60 and older now comprise 18.7 per cent of the total population, up by 5.44 percentage points compared with

Source: The Times May 31, 2021 11:04 UTC