Declining Chinese Birth Rate Could Doom One-Child Policy

April 28, 2011

Preliminary results from China’s census, released today at a press conference in Beijing, reveal a population that is older, rapidly urbanizing, and growing more slowly, with a widening gap between male and female births. Those demographic changes, combined with comments Tuesday by President Hu Jintao, suggest the country’s controversial one-child policy is under review and may be, at least in its current form, on its way out.  (Science)