Expert: Adjust the population policy

Relaxation of previous restrictions have not encouraged enough births

China should further relax or even abolish the family planning policies to increase births and ease the impact of rapid population aging, a leading expert has suggested.

The latest relaxation in the family planning policy, which allows all couples to have two children, will to some extent encourage births and ease population aging in China, but it is not enough, said Zhang Chewei, vice-president of China Population Association.