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Starting January 1, 2016, Chinese couples will be allowed to have two children. Chinese lawmakers unveiled the new law, which ends the long-standing one-child policy, during a session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee. The policy is largely seen as an attempt to assist with the country's aging population problem; but human rights activists say it doesn't go far enough in liberating potential parents from government control.