Chinese President Xi Jinping smiles as he delivers a speech to students and audience during the lecture at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, July 4, 2014. With a single meeting Thursday, the leaders of China and South Korea simultaneously snubbed North Korea, bolstered their already booming trade relationship and gave the U.S. and Japan a look at Beijing's growing influence south of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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China will officially end its longstanding one-child policy, allowing couples to have two children, state media reported.
The policy was first implemented in 1980 as a means of curbing the country's rapidly-growing population.
China first announced changes to the law in 2013, allowing couples to have children only if one of the parents was an only child. Activists have campaigned against the policy in recent years amid fears that country's aging population will leave huge gaps in the workforce.
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