Call for China's 'one child' rule to be lifted

12 July 2011 Last updated at 00:03 ET Help

China's richest and most populous province has asked the central government to relax the law that restricts most families to one child.

The country's one-child policy has been in force for more than 30 years.

Daniel Griffiths reports.

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