Fees vary from region to region. In Jiangsu province, they are 40 percent of the annual per capita disposable income of urban residents, which stood at 10,536 yuan ($1,653) last year.

Yuan Xin, a professor at Nankai University's population and development institute in Tianjin said that family planning policy should be adjusted according to changing practical situations.

"Finally, Chinese couples should decide on their own how many children they want," he said.

He also ruled out any possibility that the population would explode as it was proven trend that people, particularly in cities, tended to have smaller families even without imposed limits.

Questions:

1. When was the policy brought in that means parents are allowed a second child if they are both single children?

2. What was the name of the policy?

3. Why has eligibility to have a second child recently increased?

Answers:

1. 1970s.

2. Family planning policy.

3. Because the single-child generation has come of marriageable age.

About the broadcaster:

Rosie Tuck is a copy editor at the China Daily website. She was born in New Zealand and graduated from Auckland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Communications studies majoring in journalism and television. In New Zealand she was working as a junior reporter for the New Zealand state broadcaster TVNZ. She is in Beijing on an Asia New Zealand Foundation grant, working as a journalist in the English news department at the China Daily website.

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