The State Council is reportedly mulling the removal of all remaining limits on the number of children that Chinese families can have. But the small impact of past steps to dismantle the one-child policy suggests that policymakers would need to take a much more proactive approach if they were to have any hope of moving the needle on China’s demographic trends.
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