Monday, 12 January 2009

Future of the policy

Zhang Weiqing, Minister of the State Commission of Population and Family Planning, said in 2006 that China planned to continue its family planning policy at least until the end of its eleventh five year plan in 2010 and denied rumours that restrictions would become less stringent.



Zhang Weiqing - at a press conference in 2006

More recent announcements suggest that the policy will not be scrapped for at least ten years.
This article in the Telegraph has more details.