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The one-child policy covers 63 per cent of the country’s population and Beijing says it has averted 400 million births since 1980.
Its enforcement can be brutal. Couples who flout family planning laws are, at minimum, fined, some lose their jobs, and in some cases mothers are forced to abort their babies or be sterilized.
Last summer, a woman who was seven months pregnant was forced to have an abortion, triggering outrage on China’s Internet and international condemnation.
But evidence has been mounting for years that the policy may be unnecessary to control population growth.
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