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Beijing residents react as China to allow couples to have three children

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Residents react as China is set to allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media said Monday, further unwinding four decades of strict family planning controls in the world's most populous nation which have strangled the birthrate.

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