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China’s Sichuan to scrap three-child limit as birth rates drop

China’s Sichuan to scrap three-child limit as birth rates drop

BEIJING: Southwest China’s Sichuan province will lift its three-child birth limit and remove restrictions on single parents as the world’s most populous nation faces a looming demographic crisis.China’s population shrank last year for the first time in more than six decades, official data released this month showed, and the nation of 1.4 billion has seen birth rates plunge to record lows as its workforce ages.China ended its strict “one-child policy” -- imposed in the 1980s out of fears of overpopulation -- in 2016 and began allowing couples to have three children in 2021.But that has failed to reverse the demographic decline.Faced with falling birth rates, authorities in Sichuan on Monday said they would remove the limit on the number of children a family can have and lift a ban on single women registering a birth.The Sichuan Provincial Health Commission said the new rules would take effect on February 15.Out-of-wedlock births are frowned upon in China, with the National Health Commis

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