Births drop in China
Families with three children are being allowed to buy a second home in an effort to boost the sluggish property market and falling birthrate.
After more than a decade of restricting families to one or two children, the ruling Communist Party is now confronted with a rapidly ageing society and a population that is due to decline this year.
It has offered families in more than a dozen Chinese cities incentives to have more children, including cash subsidies. In the latest move, at least 13 cities announced that households with three or more children would be prioritised when new homes go on sale.