Change to ease drop in workforce

Researchers worry new births will prove 'too little and too late'

Employers and local governments don't need experts to tell them about the impact of the "one-child" family planning policy on the labor force.

Yao Linrong, a top official in the eastern city of Zhangjiagang, home of China's largest privately owned steel mills in Jiangsu province, knows exactly what the city government's greatest concern is for economic development in the next five years.