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Health
Alex Barry

As China's population ages, the one-child policy generation face an obligation they can't fulfil

Qin Zhen remembers the unexpected flourish her father added to his speech on her wedding day. 

"He gave me a KPI – two kids!" she says. "With no prior conversation. I was like, 'Two kids? Oh my God!'"

Zhen isn't even sure she wants one child. The cost of living in Chinese cities is now so high many people her age can't afford to raise children.

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