Time to end China's one-child policy urgently: government advisers warn of demographic crisis ahead
Time to end China's one-child policy urgently: government advisers warn of demographic crisis ahead
- October 21, 2015
- Wang Feng, sociology professor, is quoted by the South China Morning Post Oct. 21, 2015
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From the South China Morning Post:
"There is already a consensus among China's demographers that the limits should be
relaxed," said Wang Feng, a demographer with the University of California, Irvine,
and a guest professor at Fudan University. "It's … already too late to be doing so."
For the full story, please visit http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1870195/its-time-allow-more-babies-china-urged-government.
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