CHINA-INTERNAL: POPULATION

 China's National Health and Family Planning Commission announced on November 26, 2016, that this year’s number of newborns would exceed 17.5 million – similar to the total number in 2000. The  Commission's Deputy Director, Wang Peian,said the new population total this year had met its expectations after it permitted all Chinese parents to have a second child from January 1 this year.


(Comment: The new two-child policy means 17 million babies could be born by 2021)






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