BEIJING (Reuters) – China will further ease its family planning laws after announcing last week that it would allow millions of families to have two children, a senior official from the government’s family planning commission said on Tuesday. “I can only say that the direction is definite, but as to what kind of specific strategy will be chosen, we have to wait for the experts’ verification of the situation at that time,” said Mao Qun’an, the spokesman for the National Health and Family Planning Commission. The commission executes and advises the government on family planning policy, and as a senior official at the agency, Mao would be privy to the direction of the recommendations. The government said last week that it would allow couples in which one of the parents is an only child to have a second child. It was the most significant relaxation of the one-child policy […]