The Chronicle of Higher Education

China to Withdraw Ban on Marriage and Childbearing by Students

By PAUL MOONEY

Beijing

China's Ministry of Education has announced that it will lift a 25-year-old policy that barred university students from marrying and bearing children.

Fan Yi, an official with the ministry's student-affairs department, was quoted by the official Xinhua News Agency as saying that the policy would no longer...

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