China says one child policy will continue

Despite the fact China is facing population challenges such as fast aging and sex ratio imbalance, the country will continue its low-birth policy, said Li Keqiang, Vice Premier of China.

China is facing the pressure of population growth and the country’s aggressive development over the past three decades has raised new challenges, Li told authorities at the National Population and Family Planning Commission today, reports Xinhua.

Only 200 million people were born from 1989 to 2005, the year the nation’s population reached 1.3 billion. The Chinese government said the achievement should be attributed to the One Child policy, without which the population would be more than 1.7 billion, estimated the government.

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