{"id":51038,"date":"2013-11-15T23:46:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T19:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=51038"},"modified":"2013-11-16T07:16:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T03:16:44","slug":"china-abolishes-its-labour-camps-and-finally-eases-its-one-child-policy-allowing-couples-to-have-two-children-if-one-of-the-parents-is-an-only-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=51038","title":{"rendered":"China abolishes its labour camps and finally eases its one-child policy, allowing couples to have two children if one of the parents is an only child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/China-eases-its-one-child-policy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-51036\" alt=\"China eases its one-child policy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/China-eases-its-one-child-policy.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/China-eases-its-one-child-policy.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/China-eases-its-one-child-policy-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/China-eases-its-one-child-policy-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>China will loosen its decades-old one-child policy and abolish a much-criticised labour camp system, its ruling Communist Party said.<\/p>\n<p>The official Xinhua News Agency said the party announced the changes in a policy document on Friday following a key, four-day meeting of party leaders that ended on Tuesday in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new family-planning rules, couples can have two children if one of the parents is an only child.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s one-child policy currently limits most urban couples to one child and allows two children for rural families if their first-born is a girl.<\/p>\n<p>Other exceptions previously also included allowing two children for parents who are themselves both singletons.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government credits the one-child policy introduced in 1980 with preventing hundreds of millions of births and helping lift countless families out of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Couples who flout the rules face hefty fines, seizure of their property and loss of their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; China will loosen its decades-old one-child policy and abolish a much-criticised labour camp system,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":51036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[1306,3873],"class_list":["post-51038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-china-2","tag-one-child-policy","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}