China Signals Shift Away From Birth Restrictions as Population Ages
BEIJING—The Chinese government is sidelining a family-planning bureaucracy originally set up to manage the country’s contentious one-child policy, a sign that Beijing wants to de-emphasize birth restrictions in favor of issues related to an aging population.
As part of a broad government reorganization, several government agencies will merge under one ministry, replacing what is now called the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
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