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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's Martin Patience: "China's population is rapidly ageing" 
  
 China is to relax its policy of restricting most couples to having only a single child, state media say. 
  
 In future, families will be allowed two children if one parent is an only child, the Xinhua news agency said. 
  
 The proposal follows this week's meeting of a key decision-making body of the governing Communist Party. 
  
 Other reforms include the abolition of "re-education through labour" camps and moves to boost the role of the private sector in the economy. 
  
 Analysis Though the scale of the Chinese leadership's new social and economic reforms are vast, affecting millions across China, none of these changes should come as a shock. Many of these changes have been discussed in the Chinese state media in the past, and many have been test-driven on a smaller scale in different parts of the country. For example, in some Chinese cities for the past few years, couples who are both single children have been allowed the option of having a second child. The latest change will give couples the option of having two children if just one of the parents is an only child. Similarly, Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to abolish the much-hated "re-education through labour" system when he first came to power. Quietly, officials have been winding down the system over the past few months. The Communist government is not prone to making rash decisions. In order to gain the consensus it needs to carry out its plans at the local level, officials need to announce them well ahead of time. Surprises aren't popular in China, it seems. 
  
 The BBC's Celia Hatton, in Beijing, says most of the changes have already been tested in parts of the country. 
  
 Officials announce their plans well in advance to gain the consensus they need, she adds. 
  
 Ageing population 
  
 The latest announcements are contained in a 22,000-word document released three days after the Third Plenum meeting of the Communist leadership in Beijing. 
  
 Traditionally reforms are expected from the Third Plenum, because new leaders are seen as having had time to consolidate power. President Xi Jinping took office last year. 
  
 The one-child policy would be "adjusted and improved step by step to promote 'long-term balanced development of the population in China'", Xinhua said. 
  
 China introduced its one-child policy at the end of the 1970s to curb rapid population growth. 
  
 But correspondents say the policy has become increasingly unpopular and that leaders fear the country's ageing population will both reduce the labour pool and exacerbate elderly care issues. 
  
 By 2050, more than a quarter of the population will be over 65. 
  
 The one-child policy has on the whole been strictly enforced, though some exceptions already exist, including for ethnic minorities. 
  
 In some cities, both parents must be only children in order to be allowed to have a second child. 
  
 China's one-child policy China's population-control policy was introduced in 1979 and restricts couples in urban areas to only one child 
  
 In rural areas, families are allowed to have two children if the first is a girl. 
  
 Other exceptions include ethnic minorities and couples who both lack siblings themselves 
  
 The policy has meant that about one-third of China's 1.3 billion citizens cannot have a second child without incurring a fine 
  
 Campaigners say it has led to forced abortions, female infanticide, and the under-reporting of female births 
  
 It is also implicated as a cause of China's gender imbalance Chinese netizens hail one-child-policy move 
  
 In the countryside, families are allowed to have two children if the first is a girl. 
  
 Couples who flout the rules can face heavy fines, or possibly lose their property or their jobs. 
  
 Rights groups say the law has meant some women being coerced into abortions, which Beijing denies. 
  
 The traditional preference for boys has also created a gender imbalance as some couples opt for sex-selective abortions. 
  
 By the end of the decade, demographers say China will have 24 million "leftover men" who, because of China's gender imbalance, will not be able to find a wife. 
  
 Most of the elderly in China are still cared for by relatives, and only children from single-child parents face what is known as the 4-2-1 phenomenon. 
  
 When the child reaches working age, he or she could have to care for two parents and four grandparents in retirement. 
  
 'Improve human rights' 
  
 On Tuesday, when the Third Plenum ended, China's leaders also promised that the free market would play a bigger role, and farmers would have greater property rights over their land. 
  
 Ageing China By 2050 more than a quarter of China's population will be over 65 years old and younger generations face an unprecedented burden of care. Ageing China: Changes and challenges 
  
 State firms will be required to pay larger dividends to the government, while private firms will be given a greater role in the economy. 
  
 There will be greater liberalisation in both interest rates and the free convertibility of the yuan. More overseas investment will be allowed. 
  
 There will also be an increase in the number of smaller banks and financial institutions funded by private capital. 
  
 Xinhua said the decision to do away with the "re-education through labour" camps was "part of efforts to improve human rights and judicial practices". 
  
 China's leaders had previously said they wanted to reform the system. 
  
 The network of camps created half a century ago holds tens of thousands of inmates. 
  
 Police panels have the power to sentence offenders to years in camps without trial. 
  
 Other reforms announced on Friday include a reduction in the number of crimes subject to the death penalty. ||||| BEIJING—China is tempering its controversial one-child policy, allowing more couples to have a second child in a surprise concession over a much-disliked control that comes as the country faces a looming worker shortage. 
  
 Couples will be able to have two children if one spouse is an only child, according to a wide-ranging Communist Party reform blueprint issued Friday, the most significant adjustment in a policy that has defined... ||||| China 
  
 Among the many reform hopes bandied about in the runup to China’s Third Plenum, one was that Beijing would move decisively toward abandoning its long-outdated one-child policy. So far there’s no evidence that has happened. Indeed, just one day before the party confab closed on Nov. 12, a Chinese official came out apparently cautioning those who expect rapid progress. China plans to “fine-tune” its 30-year-old one-child policy, according to National Health and Family Planning Commission spokesman Mao Chun’an. Yet “any step taken must serve to maintain a low birth rate while satisfying individual families’ desire to have more children,” Mao said on Nov. 11, reported the China Daily. 
  
 If the policy had never been adopted, China today might have a population of 1.7 billion to 1.8 billion, and “per capita ownership of resources, including arable land, grain, forests, drinking water, and energy, would be 20 percent less than what it is today,” estimated Mao, the Xinhua News Agency reported. (China currently has about 1.4 billion people.) 
  
 “China will continue to uphold the family planning policy as a basic national policy, given that its huge population places a heavy strain on economic and social development, resources, and the environment in the long run,” the China Daily reported Mao as saying. 
  
 Trouble is, there’s a growing consensus that the policy itself is putting a heavy strain on China’s economic development. More specifically, it has saddled the country with a host of unintended problems, including an aging population, a shrinking workforce, a skewed sex ratio, and an often disgruntled populace that doesn’t like paying stiff penalties for additional children. 
  
 Even China’s desire to create a more innovative and entrepreneurial economy may be complicated by the continuing enforcement of the policy. The young workforce that typically drives new ideas in an economy is becoming an even smaller proportion of the overall Chinese population, argues entrepreneur James Liang, chairman of online tourism company Ctrip.com and author of Too Many People in China? 
  
 “In pretty much every country, developing and developed, you see that the older the age of the workforce, the lower the overall entrepreneurship,” Liang said in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek last year, citing Japan as the classic example. 
  
 How might the policy be fine-tuned? Currently, two parents that both come from single-child families are allowed to have more than one child. One possibility that has been discussed is to allow more than one child in a family if just one of the parents was a single child. Today, Chinese families average 1.6 children, well below the 2.1 level that’s considered the replacement rate, or what’s necessary to avoid a shrinking population. 
  
 It may be too late, though. Much like in other countries that have seen incomes rise, the majority of Chinese say they prefer smaller families. That’s what a recent study in Jiangsu province concluded, too: Already 70 percent of rural families favor having just one child, found a team led by Gu Baochang, a demographer at Renmin University of China in Beijing. “Family planning policy is no longer the key factor determining people’s reproduction choices,” said Gu, reported the China Daily. |||||

"Loosen," "ease" and "relax": Those are the verbs being used to describe what's happening to China's one-child policy. According to the official Xinhua news agency, as long as one parent in a couple is an only child, that couple will now be allowed to have two children, the Wall Street Journal reports. The current policy allows couples in some cities to have a second child if both parents are only children, and lets rural families have two kids if the first is a girl, explains the BBC. That 30-year-old policy has come under fire recently, BusinessWeek reports, as critics say it has led to an aging population and decreasing workforce (which do no favors to China economically), and an uneven gender ratio—not to mention citizens just don't like it. Earlier this week, an official promised the government would "fine-tune" the policy, but warned that the country needed to maintain a "low birth rate." The current policy has led to an average of 1.6 children per family—2.1 children per family generally accepted as the figure needed to maintain a steady population, explains BusinessWeek. Another change announced today: China will end a controversial "re-education through labor" policy that allowed people to be detained in labor camps for up to four years without a trial.