China is inasmuch as an end to the limit imposed on the number of children that each family can set up, according to Bloomberg.
Such a move would be a dramatic shift away from the one-child way that China imposed on its citizens for decades.
In early 2016, Beijing devil-may-care restrictions on its one-child policy by allowing couples to have two children.
A formal communiqu by China’s government could be made by the end of this year.
China’s birthrate has been declining in two shakes of a lambs tail since the 1980s and has become a pressing concern for President Xi JinPing as he looks to come forth the economy.
The easing of the one-child policy, which was amended in early 2016 to permit all Chinese families to have two children, helped push the number of lines in the country to 17.86 million in 2016, an increase of 7.9 percent across 2015, according to state media reports citing China’s Civil Health and Family Planning Commission. The figure was the highest since 2000.
Other statistics released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics recorded a slightly higher account of 18.46 million births in 2016.
Read the full report at Bloomberg here.
– NBC Newsflash contributed to this report.