China will ease its one-child policy restricting family members number and eradicate its criticized system of "re-education labor camps" that for decades kept to control economic, social and legal matters for Chinese citizens.
On Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the changes after a meeting of top party officials that included more benefits for farmers with more rights to sell land, compensation for confiscated land, better property protection, and settle permanently in the cities.
"We must certainly have the courage and conviction to renew ourselves," Xi Jinping said on a statement. "Overcome all the crosscutting restrictions, surmount the constraints of sectional interests."
The new child policy allows couples to have two children when a husband or wife is an only child, the statement reported. Before, couples could have two children if both parents were single children.
The older restriction was introduced because government feared China overpopulation would consume too many local resources suffocating China's growth.
Now, China's elderly population is 11% of the population; experts say by 2050, it will be 31% of the population if the trend is not stopped amid fears a greater elderly population won't be able to work and will be in need of help from younger family members.
China also abolished the "re-education through labor" system active since the 1950s and allowing officials to imprison without any "real" judicial review or trial. Nevertheless, China didn't reported a date for bringing the criticized system to an end.
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