Chinese welcome 'two-child' policy, but can they afford it?

Chinese welcome 'two-child' policy, but can they afford it?
- November 29, 2013
- Wang Feng, sociology professor, is featured on NPR November 29, 2013
From NPR:
Wang Feng, a leading demographer in China and a sociologist at the University of
California, Irvine, has spent more than a decade urging Chinese officials to change
the one-child policy. Until relatively recently, he said, the topic was too sensitive
for public discussion. …Wang credits this month's policy change to a new, more confident
group of Chinese leaders who took office earlier this year. He said they seem to recognize
the policy has created big demographic problems in China, including a rapidly aging
society and a shrinking labor force.
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