FILE PHOTO: Women play with children at a park in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, China November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's birth rate in several regions, including the capital Beijing, fell again in 2018, the official China Daily said on Friday, despite government efforts to encourage couples to have more children.
Alarmed by the rapid ageing of its population, China relaxed its controversial "one-child policy" in 2016, allowing all couples to have two children instead of just one.
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