'One child' policy to stay in China

China, the world's most populous country with more than 1.3 billion people, will maintain its strict "one-child" policy, state media said yesterday, despite calls for the rules to be relaxed.
The population control measure has prevented almost half a billion births since it was introduced in 1979, Chinese experts claim.
But it has turned into a demographic time bomb as the population ages, storing up huge economic and social problems for the country as well as fostering a gender imbalance.