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China Adopts Universal Two-Child Policy 1 重要资料，可以直接用。Ever Changing, Improving: Chinas Family Planning （计划生育）Policy 17 China Adopts Universal Two-Child Policy China further relaxed its more than three-decade-old?family planning policy, according to a statement issued on Thursday by the Communist Party of China Central Committee. Roughly 90 million Chinese couples will become eligible to have a second child. Its the latest move by the authorities to fine-tune the family planning policy, amid the nations changing demo-graphics, which could lead to potential labor shortages （潜在的劳动力短缺）in the future if not addressed.（处理） The statement said the countrys ageing trend（老龄化趋势） would be actively addressed by the universal（普遍的）?two-child policy, and that China would continue to stick to the family planning policy as a basic State interest.（国家利益） Yuan Xin, a population scientist at Nankai University in Tianjin, who sits on（开庭审理；成为…的一员；旁听；列席） an expert panel （专家团）of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, said scrapping the family planning policy remained a long way off. The new initiative will be much better received among the Chinese people than the previous（以前的，先前的） policy relaxation and will help boost （推动，促进）Chinas labor supply in the long run, he said. In late 2013, the central government relaxed （放松，放宽）the family planning policy, allowing couples to have a second child in situations（在。。情况下） where one spouse（夫妻，配偶） was an only child（独生子女）. As of June, only 1.5 million of the 11 million eligible couples（符合条件的配偶） had applied to （申请）have a second child. The latest change will affect rural families（农村家庭） most, as 60 percent of the newly eligible are rural people who tend to（倾向于） be more interested than city dwellers in having bigger families, Yuan said. Also, its more urgent for the eligible couples, he said, as 60 percent of them are 35 years or older. Yuan also suggested adding more favorable （有利的，优惠的）socioeconomic policies to make it easier for couples to raise