Letters

Family policy adjusts to the times

Comment on "Family planning policy enters new era" (China Daily, Jan 24)

In early years of New China, people were encouraged to have more children to meet the great demand for workforce in society. But for more than three decades beginning in the late 1970s, China followed a strict family planning policy, which allowed most couples to have one child, to restrict a population boom that could have eaten into its limited resources.