China will ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children after decades of a strict one-child policy, the ruling Communist Party has announced, a move aimed at alleviating demographic strains on the economy. Photographer Carlos Barria photographed a child born in each year of China's one-child policy and asked his subjects if they would have liked to have siblings Above: Cai Hua, who was born in 1979, poses for a photograph in Shanghai. Hua said: 'I wish I had a sister. I prefer to have a sister rather than a brother. I have a lot of friends who have a brother and they usually fight with each other. I think it would be very funny but I would prefer to have a sister.' Picture: Carlos Barria/Reuters

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