Population policies are never static as they must adapt to changing population structures. As the impacts of China's rigorous and controversial one child policy begin to show, the government is now having to consider a total policy shift to correct their elderly population structure.
China now has the smallest birth rate in the world and this is fast becoming a concern for the Chinese government which is ironic as ten years ago they saw it as one of their biggest achievements.
Read the articles below and think about these questions...
1. Why are the government now worried?
2. What will the new policy look like?
3. Does this change in policy mean that the one child policy was wrong?
4. How does the new policy differ in nature to the one child policy?
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