Legislators in Zhejiang in eastern China Monday passed a revision to the local rules on Monday making the change, the provincial legislature said in a statement.
China's National Health and Family Planning Commission confirmed to AFP that Zhejiang was the first province in the country to carry out the relaxation - agreed by the country's Communist leaders at a key party meeting in November and approved by the national parliament three weeks ago.
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