China

Beijing has announced that it is to review its one-child policy with a view to scrapping it in favour of increasing education about family planning. China's demographic profile points to mounting long-term woes, chief among them being a rapidly ageing population - a process whose symptoms have been exacerbated by the government's one-child policy - and a severe gender imbalance, which could lead to social instability. Vice Minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission Zhao Baige has said that the government wishes to alter its current policies 'incrementally' in order to avoid any potential spike in births.

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