Chinese companies that make baby-related products jumped on Tuesday after Bloomberg reported the country was considering removing all limits on the number of children a family can have by the end of this year.
Bloomberg reported on Monday that Beijing had commissioned research on the possible outcome of scrapping nearly four-decade-old controls on reproduction, with a decision expected as soon as the fourth quarter.
China’s ruling Communist party allowed all couples to have two children from 2016, abandoning the one-child policy which had been in place since 1979. However, the change in policy appears to have not had the desired effect, as the number of births fell in 2017 compared to the previous year.