China not to pilot policy of 'second-child to all' in 2015   

國(guó)家衛(wèi)計(jì)委研究所長(zhǎng)：今年不會(huì)試點(diǎn)全面放開(kāi)二孩

今天上午，出席第十二屆全國(guó)人大三次會(huì)議的北京團(tuán)代表報(bào)到。上午趕來(lái)駐地報(bào)到的人大代表馬旭表示，全面放開(kāi)二胎預(yù)計(jì)在今年不會(huì)搞區(qū)域性試點(diǎn)，單獨(dú)二孩政策效果還要再觀察一段時(shí)間。 [查看全文]

(ECNS) -- China will not pilot the policy of "second-child to all" in 2015 as the the effects remain to be seen, Beijing News reported on Tuesday, citing a National People's Congress (NPC) deputy. [Special coverage]

Ma Xu, who also heads the Institute of Science and Technology under the National Health and Family Planning Commission, said that statistics showed the number of second children being born increased by 470,000 in the past year due to the relaxed policy.

The effects of the new ruling have yet to be fully grasped and so it will not be implemented nation-wide this year, it was added.

The current family planning policy only allows parents who are either an only child to have two children of their own.

During this year's NPC session, Ma said his attention would be on abandoned babies.

China introduced its one-child policy in the late 1970s in an effort to slow down population growth.