China's one child policy ended 10 years ago but birth rates remain low

Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, fertility rates have not bounced back. NPR speaks with journalist Cindy Yu ...
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One-child policy: China wants more babies; people aren't sure

January 1, 2026, marks ten years since China formally scrapped its notorious one-child policy, a sweeping social experiment that shaped family life for more than three decades. The decision to end it ...
CNN

Ten years after it ended its ‘one-child’ policy, China’s push for more babies isn’t winning its citizens over

Welkin Lei has been doing some paper-napkin calculations in his spare time. As the 30-year-old from Beijing and his wife consider whether to have a second child, they face a question of resources.
UPI

China's one-child policy fuels growing elder-care strain

Dec. 21 (Asia Today) --China's one-child policy, enforced nationwide from 1979 and maintained for decades, is facing renewed criticism as the country confronts mounting pressure to care for aging ...
The New York Times

Peng Peiyun, 95, Dies; Official Renounced China’s One-Child Policy

She was given the “hardest job under heaven”: upholding birth limits enforced by often brutal local officials. She came to support softening the policy, then abolishing it. By Chris Buckley Peng ...
Reuters

China social media thrashes one-child policy after population control czar dies

BEIJING, Dec 25 (Reuters) - The death of a former head of China's one-child policy has been met not by tributes but by castigation of the abandoned policy on social media this week. State media ...