China’s one-child policy gets the once over

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China’s family planning commission has released a survey saying that 70% of Chinese women wish they could have two babies or more partially because they worry that an only child is likely to become lonely or spoiled. The commission just announced the survey, but there is a twist, it was conducted in 2006, but is only being released now. For more on the survey and what it might mean for China’s one-child policy, we’re joined by Quentin Sommerville, the BBC’s Beijing Correspondent.

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