Why China is making condoms and birth control pills more expensive

Ten years after scrapping its controversial one-child policy, China’s policymakers are scrambling to reverse the country’s declining birth rate. CNN’s Simone McCarthy unpacks how Beijing is trying to encourage young people to have more children.

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