Monks Without a Temple; Reforming the One-Child Policy  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 406 no. 8827 (Mar. 2013), page 31-32.
Topik: Government Agencies; Corporate Reorganization; Public Policy; Births; Children & Youth; Parents & Parenting; Demographics; Statistical Data; Social Policy; Geographic Profiles

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A government reshuffle in China announced on March 10th may be the beginning of the end of the country's one-child policy. The news came at a session of the National People's Congress, the nation's legislature, which is due to end on March 17th, and was used by the government to announce other ministerial mergers. the most intriguing change is the reorganisation that will merge the family-planning bureaucracy, created purely to control population growth, with the health ministry to form a new Health and Family Planning Commission. Officials have vowed that this does not mean the one-child policy is about to come to an end. But public scrutiny of the policy is growing, along with pressure to loosen or scrap it altogether. Chinese demographers say the social and economic damage done by the policy will be felt for generations. Some experts say that scrapping the policy would make little difference in practice. Surveys show that many parents in the cities want only one child anyway. But political leaders still fear that such a reform would result in a sudden burst of population growth, and so far they have held fast, despite the pleas of demographers. But a once unassailable pillar of government control is suddenly looking fragile.

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