Three-child policy

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The three-child policy (Chinese: 三孩政策; pinyin: Sānhái Zhèngcè), whereby a couple can have three children, is a family planning policy in the People's Republic of China that exists as a formality but is effectively abolished. The policy was announced on 31 May 2021 at a meeting of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), chaired by CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping, on population aging. Less than a month after the policy's announcement, on 26 June 2021, the State Council removed all penalties and restrictions for having more children than permitted, leaving the three-child limit a mere formality. This effectively ended child-birth limits in the country, since families could now have as many children as they wished without restriction. The government agency responsible for enforcing childbirth limits, the National Population and Family Planning Commission, was dissolved in 2013, 8 years prior. The announcement came after the release of the results of the Seventh National Population...

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