More than 53,000 couples in Beijing have asked for a second child since the city changed its birth control policy in early 2014. By the end of September, 53,034 couples in Beijing had handed in applications(申请), among which 48,392 couples were approved. Of the possible mothers, 57 percent were aged between 31 and 35 years old. China introduced its family planning policy in the late 1970s to control population growth. Couples can have only one child in the city and most of the couples can have two in the countryside, allowing the birth of a second child if the first child was a girl.
An important policy change at the end of 2013 allows couples all over the country to have a second child if either parent is an only child. Beijing, with the population of over 20 million, said that the new policy would increase this number by more than 270,000. The number will reach the top and begin to go down.
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