9.5 Million More Newborns Expected in China after Government Ease the

One-child Policy

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Chinese government will relax the one-child policy by allowing couples to have a second baby if either is the only child in family. Currently, both parents must be sole children to be eligible for a second child. The new policy will allow 15-20 million couples to have two children. There is about 16 million newborns every year in China. With the revised policy, over 1 million newborns will be expected per year.

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BoFAML (Bank of America Merrill Lynch) estimates more than 9.5 million babies could be born if the policy was relaxed on top of the 16 million a year born in the mainland every year.

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Chinese authorities have said they are considering lifting their controversial one-child policy by the end of 2015. The new law could be extended to allow all families to have a second child by 2015.

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