Friday, February 29, 2008

End of the Chinese one child policy?

If you read back through many of the postings under the 'Population' label (use right sidebar to link), you will see that many of them flag up the problems which are associated with the Chinese one child policy. As a result of these and other problems, China may now be ready to relax its draconian population policy. Here are two articles on the subject which the 'Guardian' has carried recently...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/28/china.population
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/29/china.population