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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5137/B.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='China Raises Child Limit to 3 as Birth Rate Drops' data-article-id='5674'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='12250'>China’s government has raised the child limit for couples from two to three as the country experiences lower birth rates.</span> <span data-start-time='12250' data-end-time='21104'>For many years, China enforced a one-child policy as a way to control the population. </span> <span data-start-time='21104' data-end-time='29167'>But that policy was replaced in 2016 with a two-child limit. </span> <span data-start-time='29167' data-end-time='39083'>That change was aimed at raising the number of births as the country faced a fast aging population.</span> <span data-start-time='39083' data-end-time='51208'>But birth rates have further decreased in recent years as the cost of raising children in Chinese cities remains high.</span> <span data-start-time='51208' data-end-time='65438'>The latest measure to permit three children per family is meant “to actively deal with the aging population,” the official Xinhua News Agency reported. </span> <span data-start-time='65438' data-end-time='75667'>The decision came during a ruling Communist Party meeting led by President Xi Jinping, it said.</span> <span data-start-time='75667' data-end-time='86688'>The policy includes what the government calls supportive measures” to make it easier for families to have more children. </span> <span data-start-time='86688' data-end-time='98104'>The measures include plans to lower educational costs for families and increase tax and housing support. </span> <span data-start-time='98104' data-end-time='106500'>The government also said it would seek to educate young people on marriage and love.</span> <span data-start-time='106500' data-end-time='118563'>Recent data showed that China’s fertility rate -- the average number of births per mother -- was 1.3 in 2020. </span> <span data-start-time='118563' data-end-time='132417'>That rate which is similar to aging nations like Japan and Italy is well short of the 2.1 needed to replace the population.</span> <span data-start-time='132417' data-end-time='139229'>Yifei Li is a sociologist at New York University Shanghai. </span> <span data-start-time='139229' data-end-time='151438'>She told Reuters that most families did not hold back on having children in recent years because of the government’s two-child policy. </span> <span data-start-time='151438' data-end-time='161458'>Instead, she said they held off because of "the incredibly high costs of raising children in today's China.”</span> <span data-start-time='161458' data-end-time='170521'>Zhang Xinyu is a 30-year-old mother of one from Zhengzhou in northeastern China. </span> <span data-start-time='170521' data-end-time='179438'>She said another problem was that women carried most of the responsibility for raising children.</span> <span data-start-time='179438' data-end-time='187833'>She added, “I don't want to have a second child. And a third is even more impossible."</span> <span data-start-time='187833' data-end-time='201667'>Economists say that China, along with Thailand and some other Asian economies, faces concerns that it could grow old before it gets wealthy.</span> <span data-start-time='201667' data-end-time='214458'>The Chinese population of 1.4 billion was already expected to reach a high later this decade before starting to drop. </span> <span data-start-time='214458' data-end-time='221542'>But recent government data suggested that is happening faster than expected. </span> <span data-start-time='221542' data-end-time='237938'>Experts say this adds to pressures on underfinanced retirement and health systems and cuts the number of future workers available to support a growing retiree group.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' 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