China population: plan to lift birth restrictions in the northeast panned for not tackling economic roots of crisis

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]A proposal to ease birth restrictions in China’s struggling northeast rust belt has been ridiculed online, with numerous residents criticising the government for its uninspired response to the region’s demographic crisis.The northeast provinces of Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Jilin can experiment with lifting restrictions after more research is done to ascertain the impact on the local economy, the National Health Commission said in a statement from last August that was released on Wednesday.The…

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