Policies promoted to solve population problems

Government moves to address slowing birth rate and aging workforce. Wang Xiaodong reports.

Editor's note: To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, we are publishing a series of stories reflecting on changes and developments in fields such as law, education, transportation and the environment. This is the seventh, and last, in the series.

Yang Dan, the mother of a 6-year-old boy, has occasionally considered having another child, but she has never taken the idea seriously.