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BEIJING, CHINA, November 2, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – A government-run Chinese think tank is recommending a “rollback” of the country’s controversial one-child policy.  This is the first time any government agency has openly challenged the policy, going so far as to cite negative economic and social effects the policy has brought to China.

Copies of the China Development Research Foundation report were delivered to the state-controlled media with the official report due to be widely released later this month.

It includes a timeline with certain provinces expanding child limits to two children per couple initially, with the rest of the country following by 2015. 

The CDRF recommends complete repeal of any family size limits by 2020.

Bob Fu of China Aid told LifeSiteNews.com, “It’s a positive development.  At least more and more people are reaching consensus that this is a non-sustainable policy.”

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The “one-child” policy – which allows a two-child limit in certain areas under strict conditions – has been controversial, both within its boarders and in its foreign relations. 

“High pro-file cases highlighted the brutality of the implementation of forced abortion and gender policy,” said Fu.  He added that the last year has been ripe with “Congressional hearings, international outcry and Chinese outcry over late term forced abortion practices.”

“Photos really captured the international attention, though the brutality has been going on for several decades,” he added.

Although the pressure has been mounting on the Chinese government to end the human rights violations that have been ongoing as a result of enforcing the policy, the report focuses on the demographic and economic effects it has had.

Gender disparity is cited as a great concern. 

Reggie Littlejohn of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers has shined a light on Chinese gendercide.  “According to a 2009 study by the British Medical Journal

>, the average birth ratio in China is 120 boys for every hundred girls born,” reports Reggie Littlejohn with WRWF.  “But for second births, that number jumps to 143 boys for every hundred girls.  In two provinces, Jiangsu and Anhui, for the second child, there were 190 boys for every hundred girls born.”