article_snippet: Now, under relaxed restrictions announced just over a year ago, couples like Yang Xue and Chang Zi'an, both professionals working in Beijing, are eligible for a second child to join both professionals working in Beijing baby girl -- 11-month-old Tao Zi, or Little Peach.
article_snippet: Chang and his young family are ideal candidates, it would seem, to have a second child.
article_snippet: In January 2014, China said China would allow couples to have a second baby if the mother or father was an only child themselves.
article_snippet: But, to the surprise of many, the new rules haven't yet sparked a baby boom.
article_snippet: Nationwide, nearly one million couples have applied to have a second child, state media reported in January.
article_snippet: Health officials had said that the one-child policy would lead to as many as two million new births when the policy change was first announced.
highlights_snippet: However, there's been no big rush for a second child .
  