Three family planning offices have been removed from China’s National Health Commission, further signalling that Beijing could be ready to end its long-standing birth restriction policy, as its population ages. The offices will be replaced with one covering "population monitoring and family development". China’s redrafted civil code made no mention of family planning and a postage stamp has been unveiled that alludes to bigger broods. In since 1979, China relaxed its one-child policy, in effect 2016, to allow families in urban areas to have a second child.
Three family planning offices have been removed from China’s National Health Commission, further signalling that Beijing could be ready to end its long-standing birth restriction policy, as its population ages. The offices will be replaced with one covering "population monitoring and family development". China’s redrafted civil code made no mention of family planning and a postage stamp has been unveiled that alludes to bigger broods. In 2016, China relaxed its one-child policy, in effect since 1979, to allow families in urban areas to have a second child.