TY - JOUR AU - Guangcheng, Chen PY - 2016/03/27 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - China’s Two Child Policy: Can a Name Change mean a Game Change? / La política China de los dos hijos: ¿Puede un cambio de nombre entrañar un cambio en el juego? JF - Araucaria JA - AR VL - 18 IS - 35 SE - Documentos DO - UR - https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/araucaria/article/view/2684 SP - AB - On October 29, 2015 the Chinese Communist Party announced a changeto its policy of planned reproduction. The “one child policy,” as it is knownin the West, is changing to a “Two Child Policy.” In the weeks since theannouncement, various commentaries have vacillated between extollingthe “good news” and bemoaning the short-changed labor market, the agingpopulation, and the egregious gender gap that have resulted from the nearlythree decades of population control.While significant, these discussions give only an eagle’s eye view of thesemacro economic and social issues. We would do well, however, to rememberthat this policy remains much more than an abstract political argument, and thetruth of it lies in the real flesh and blood details as experienced by millions ofChinese citizens. Creating real change in society — as would seem the intent inthe change of the policy — will take much more than allowing two children percouple instead of one as written in the nations law books. ER -