Two-Child Policy 'Will Have Biggest Impact Outside Big Cities'

(Beijing) – The dropping of the one-child policy will have the biggest impact in China's smaller cities and rural areas where the costs of living are low, two experts say.

The ruling Communist Party said in October it will allow couples to have a second child, more than three decades after limiting them to one. The move is an attempt to stave off problems brought on by an aging population and a shrinking workforce, and comes after a rule change in 2013 that allowed couples in which either parent was an only child to have a second infant.