China’s top family-planning official announced that the country would maintain its current family-planning system for at least a decade, ending speculation that the so-called "one-child policy" would be revised, the Wall Street Journal reported. The current set of family-planning policies, which limit most urban families to a single child, will "be kept unchanged at this time to ensure stable and balanced population growth," said Zhang Weiqing, minister of the State Population and Family Planning Commission. Last fall, a vice minister of the commissioner, said that the government was considering gradually relaxing population-control measures.
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