BEIJING: Beijing’s relaxation of its hugely controversial one-child policy is an attention-grabbing first step, but it will have to usher in greater changes if China is to tackle its looming demographic time bomb, experts say.

According to a Communist Party announcement on Friday, couples in China will now be allowed to have two children if one of the parents is an only child.

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