China not to pilot policy of 'second-child to all' in 2015   

国家卫计委研究所长：今年不会试点全面放开二孩

今天上午，出席第十二届全国人大三次会议的北京团代表报到。上午赶来驻地报到的人大代表马旭表示，全面放开二胎预计在今年不会搞区域性试点，单独二孩政策效果还要再观察一段时间。 [查看全文]

(ECNS) -- China will not pilot the policy of "second-child to all" in 2015 as the the effects remain to be seen, Beijing News reported on Tuesday, citing a National People's Congress (NPC) deputy. [Special coverage]

Ma Xu, who also heads the Institute of Science and Technology under the National Health and Family Planning Commission, said that statistics showed the number of second children being born increased by 470,000 in the past year due to the relaxed policy.

The effects of the new ruling have yet to be fully grasped and so it will not be implemented nation-wide this year, it was added.

The current family planning policy only allows parents who are either an only child to have two children of their own.

During this year's NPC session, Ma said his attention would be on abandoned babies.

China introduced its one-child policy in the late 1970s in an effort to slow down population growth.