10 Facts About Two-child policy

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Two-child policy is a government-imposed limit of two children allowed per family or the payment of government subsidies only to the first two children.

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Two child policy has previously been used in several countries including Iran, Singapore, and Vietnam.

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On 29 October 2015, Xinhua reported the change in the existing law to a two-child policy citing a statement from the Chinese Communist Party.

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The new Two-child policy allowing Chinese couples to have two children was proposed to help address the ageing issue in China.

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Families making a new benefit claim will have the 2-child Two-child policy applied to them irrespective of when their children were born.

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In 1963, North Vietnam began a policy advocating a two-child norm due to the sharp population increase of the largely poor and rural population.

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Vietnam's family planning Two-child policy was developed before those of other countries, such as China.

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In 1988, the Council of Ministers issued an in-depth family planning Two-child policy, adding additional restrictions beyond the previous restriction of keeping the maximum number of children per household to two.

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The goal of the Two-child policy was to reduce the Vietnamese fertility rate to the replacement level of 2.

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Organizational structure of the two-child policy was housed under different governmental units since its conception in the 1960s.

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