China’s Communist Party has promised to revise and loosen its one-child policy, a program that has been in place since before the country turned to free markets in 1979. The party also said it will eliminate so-called labour camps. They are among the most iniquitous parts of China’s treatment of people who dissent for political reasons or civil issues like unfair municipal decisions. The one child policy will be loosened but not eliminated. It is designed to control China’s enormous population, now said to number 1.3 billion individuals. Some analysts say that the government now needs more young people to help replenish an aging workforce. CBC
