re: #367 Occasional Reader

Although if I’m not mistaken, the Chinese government has reversed course on that in recent years, as they’ve suddenly noticed with alarm their own demographic trends.

They’ve recently lifted the One Child rule in rural areas. The economic shifts in the country have drained farms of population, as people stream into the cities for high paying work. There’s a shortage of manpower to produce food. The hope isn’t so much to increase the birth rate among those left behind, but to use the exemption as an incentive for those in the cities who want more than one child to relocate back to the countryside.