Lawmakers debate one-child policy

Legislator urges caution as regulation expected to be eased nationwide in 2014

Lawmakers stressed the importance of continuing to observe family planning practices on Tuesday during discussions on a bill that would ease the one-child policy.

Members of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress held panel discussions on a bill that will ease China's decades-long one-child policy and allow couples to have two children if either parent is an only child.