Wang Feng

“This is the first time in 40 years that a province has lifted a birth quota,” said Wang Feng, professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. “There was so much discussion around the lifting of the one-child policy … but this is the first time, with this province, that the government finally gave up this desire to tell people how many births they could have.”

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