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China to Bolster Workforce With Baby Bump, Later Retirement

A planned relaxation of the one-child policy has been among the most widely discussed aspects of the extensive reform roadmap issued last Friday. But The Economist’s Gady Epstein writes that China’s family planning enforcers will remain in business for some time to come: Some years in the future, the national policy will be two children per family, says Mao Qun’an, spokesman for the National Health and Family Planning Commission (the newly named combined ministry).