China has announced the end of its hugely controversial one-child policy, with the official Xinhua news agency saying that all couples will be allowed two children.

It cited a communique issued by the ruling Communist Party after a four-day meeting in Beijing to chart the course of the world's second largest economy over the next five years.

The one-child policy's effectiveness has been debated since its implementation in 1980. It has been credited with helping to slow China's population growth, although not by as much as originally hoped. But it also has been instrumental in a widening of the gender ratio, with a traditional preference for boys, particularly in rural areas, leading to a surplus of bachelors that will reach more than 20 million by 2020.

The policy has long had exceptions built in, such as allowing rural couples to have a second child if the first is a girl. That most recent adjustment in 2013 for the first time allowed urban couples to have a second baby if one of the parents was an only child.

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-29/china-communist-party-says-to-allow-two-children-for-all-couples/6897528

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