They can have a little brother or little sister, at least significantly more of them can have.
China is changing. The Communist Party brought a series of important decisions, like abolishing the policy of “re-education through labor” camps and promising farmers better property protection and compensation for confiscated land, in order to strengthen strengthen market competition in several important parts of the economy. Finally the Chinese government will ease its one-child family restrictions too.Traditionally most urban couples have been restricted to having one child.
However for a while couples can have two children if both parents are single children.
Now, two children will be allowed when one of them is an only child,- explained Wang Guangzhou, a demographer at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing to The New York Times. He added that many rural couples already have two children, and some have more.
Wang Feng, a demographer who teaches at both the University of California, Irvine, and Fudan University in Shanghai estimates that the new policy is the middle step toward allowing all couples to have two children.