Concerns over an ageing population and shrinking workforce ushered in an end to China's controversial one-child policy in January this year. - AFP/File / Fred Dufour
Beijing (AFP) - A state-run Chinese newspaper on Friday excoriated population authorities for "superstition" after they blamed the inauspicious Year of the Sheep for births falling in 2015 despite a loosening of the one-child policy.
China for decades restricted most couples to a single offspring through often brutally enforced rules and a system of fines for violators.
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