As promised, the one-child policy which is initially published in 1979 in China start to relax since most of the new Chinese parent is the only child in their family now. Under the new policy, couples in which one member is an only child will be allowed to have two children. The Chinese government takes this change as part of major reforms aimed at securing its economic future and strengthening policy ties with the United States. Besides, the government is also improving the legal system such as reducing the number of death penalty in order to increase the physical contribution to criminals. Although these changes refer to human rights reforms, they are driven by economics.

In my opinion, the one child policy has both effects on current Chinese society. The positive ones are quite obvious that it significantly control Chinese population since 1980 which was also a major world-wide issue. Thank to the policy, the world’s population-reaching-90-billion day has been delayed for at least three years. On the other hand, many analysts say the one-child policy has shrunk China’s labor pool, hurting economic growth. For the first time in decades the working age population fell in 2012, and China could be the first country in the world to get old before it gets rich. The change in family planning policy was intended to promote “long-term balanced development of the population in China