One family, two kids: Pioneering Chinese parents break with the one-child policy | CNNGo.com – China News

www.cnngo.com — Last March, just after Wu Zhenghong and Xu Hui’s daughter Bing Bing turned two, the Shanghai couple welcomed their second child to the family -- a chubby boy called Dou Dou.

The newborn places the couple at the forefront of a new phenomenon in Shanghai: the two-child family.

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