Zeng Yi (Duke) says China’s abandonment of one-child policy not unexpected, especially given government’s interest in his research

China’s recent announcement that it will abandon its one-child policy was not unexpected, said Zeng Yi. Yi has been following the reform movement and noted that China’s National Development and Reform Commission, a high-level policy-making body, has twice included in a key report papers authored by Yi that advocated changing to a two-child policy.