China is able to give home to more people. It's not like the rest of the world gets a say in this matter but I just wish they announced a cleaner energy plan together with this so it would balance off the damage done to earth.

you are aware that if China does NOT begin to trend down in population they will be no where, and I mean nowhere, capable of feeding their population in a couple of decades?

as it stands there are millions of people in poverty starving in China

for those of you who think that taking this rule away is a good thing, you have no idea. the amount of people in both India and China per square mile is absolutely insane

they'll regret this rule change (if in fact it truly has been changed, which I doubt. the Chinese government is not that suicidal) 

the reality is that the people most screwed in 50 years are going to be the countries with giant populations in a relative smaller amount of space (i.e. China and India). I don't doubt that it will cause wars among other things

they NEED to contain their population growth. to emphasize rebalancing certain social classes to help their economy now is short term thinking when they already aren't honestly capable of feeding their 1+ billion people (regardless of what you may hear, China is fantastic at somehow getting the world to think that a large portion of their country is 1st world when its not at all)

unfortunate?

how do you expect China to feed and care for their people if the populationi keeps growing? as it is they can't grow enough food in their country to sustain them, they're already importing agriculture

Its a sad sounding policy but it was extremely necessary on an Earth with a world population that is well beyond anything that this planet was likely capable to sustain

think for a moment- the United States for example has 350 million people in roughly the same geographic amount of space as China has 1.5 BILLION. if you can't see why this is becoming an increasingly big problem then I don't know what to say

in general the more people there are in a smaller place (respective to population vs land) the harder the standard of living is on the average person. when you bear in mind that China already does a poor job in providing for their poor and that there are already many starving in the country it creates a nightmare situation for a few decades from now if their population continues to grow

it's in line with how China artificially deflates their currency to bolster their economy. sure, in the short term it makes them more favorable to trade with BUT in the long term its detrimental to their economy because of the widespread knowledge about that and the lack of faith of any depth in their market (hint: look at the recent stock plummet)

similarly, boosting their population even more now will likely temporarily help their economy but long term it will just weaken it like a rubber band stretched too far

Why? That policy should be adopted in more places throughout the world. Bitches can't afford to have babies yet they're doing it. Kids are just coming to this wold to have a crappy life, and eventually; their descendants will have to cope with the hell that the earth will turn into because of the excessive amounts of population.

Why can't people stop having children? Its not necessary to live a happy life... They do more harm than good, the mofos are expensive to raise, and most of them are just trouble.

Somebody come up with a vaccine or pill that would make baby females unable to get pregnant. Just give it to themc and that would do wonders. The hoes nowadays should also stray from spreading their legs.

not really its till around 7% growth 

I know, which is really low for China, a 25-year low actually.

still better than most other countries in the world 

I thought the same thing.

I think it's good that they finally dropped it, it seems that the program only managed to succeed in creating a number of social issues. It's debatable if the One Child Policy was necessary to contain China's population growth. When the Policy was implemented in 1980, the birthrate had dropped down to 2.71 from a max of 6.16 in 1965. A trend of collapsing fertility rates from the same time period was also observed in Vietnam, Thailand and South Korea. The current fertility rate (2013) in China is 1.67, higher than Japan's 1.43 and lower than the US' 1.87. The continued downward slope trend in China has also been caused by increased urbanization which tends to coincide with lower fertility rates so I'm doubtful that scrapping the policy will have much of an impact on China's overall growth. However it's important to consider that China has an unbalanced sex ratio so it's tough to say what will happen.

https://www.google.ca/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=sp_dyn_tfrt_in&idim=country:CHN:USA:JPN&hl=en&dl=en#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=sp_dyn_tfrt_in&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=region&idim=country:CHN:USA:JPN&ifdim=region&tstart=-289512000000&tend=1383019200000&hl=en_US&dl=en&ind=false

Interestingly enough, apparently since at least 2007, the majority of the population was not even subject to the One Child Policy. But I'm not sure on how reliable this source is.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-07/11/content_5432238.htm

True, although China has an insanely amount of desert. Therefore in the Eastern areas live 40 times more people per square mile than in the Western parts of the country.