China officially ended its one-child policy in 2015. Since then, married couples are allowed to have a second child. The state postal agency had taken this in early 2016 - according to the Chinese horoscope the year of the monkey - as an opportunity to bring out a new stamp. To see: A monkey and two little monkeys.
2019 is now the year of the pig. And the post office workers have become creative again. On a new stamp, which was officially presented on Tuesday, is now a happy pig family to see: father, mother - and three little pigs.
If you want to see where China's birth policy is going, check its postage stamps. The latest Year of the Pig stamp - with 3 piglets! - has analysts expecting big changes https://t.co/6q1yJmhHgM "It's a clear sign that they are going to abandon all birth restrictions." pic.twitter.com/dC6C7rxGCy
- Te-Ping Chen (@tepingchen) August 8, 2018Yi Fuxian, a scientist at Wisconsin-Madison University who is considered a critic of Chinese birth policy, told The Washington Post that the new stamp was a "clear sign" that the government would completely lift the birth restrictions.
The one-child policy had been introduced in the late 1970s to curb explosive population growth and to revive the economy. The population statistics show today for the People's Republic about 1.39 billion inhabitants.
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