Population in China may soon grow as the Xi Jinping government appears to be pulling out on its decade-long one-child policy while at the same time, encouraging its constituents to have more children in the hope of reversing the severely dwindling birthrate that the country is currently facing.
China may have already ended its "one-child policy," a nationwide family planning policy aimed to put a limit on its then-bursting population rate in 1969.
Lasting more than three decades on the books, China has partially loosened the terms of the policy in 2016 by allowing its women to give birth to two children, a report from Business Insider said.
The government made it clear then that it wanted to put a stop to the effects of plummeting birth rate brought by the aforementioned policy.
As pointed out by the media outlet, China's move to lift the limit is in line with the government's aim to have millions of newborn babies by 2020, which would then answer to the need of millions of laborers to the nation's workforce by 2050.
The government's efforts did come to fruition with an almost 10 percent increase in the number of babies born by 2017. However, this rate may seem to fall short on the projection.
Recent reports are now surfacing giving tell-tale signs that the administration really intends to achieve its goal to spark a baby boom.
Just this week, news outlets like Telegraph cited China rolling out a fresh batch of national stamps. What's interesting with the stamp is its design which features a family of cartoonized pigs, consisting of a mother, a father, and three little piglets.
The stamps are reportedly in preparation for the 2019 New Year, which apparently is the Year of the Pig.
Similarly, China released an annual commemorative stamp in 2016, the Year of the Monkey, showing two parents with their two baby monkeys - clearly referencing the earlier dropping of the one-child policy.
Speculations are quite rife indicating the government's ramping efforts to accelerate the population growth.
Related reports, this time cited over at CNN, meanwhile points out to a state-run newspaper's editorial implying the crucial impact of a growing population to the country's welfare.
Titled "Giving birth is a family matter and a national issue too," the full-page column was later on published in the international version of the People's Daily.
As stated by the editorial, the country's low birth rate does have an effect on China's economy and the society as a whole.
