…just now from China’s official Xinhua news agency:
China will reduce the number of crimes subject to death penalty "step by step," a key reform document said Friday.
— Xinhua News Agency (@XHNews) November 15, 2013
China will abolish the "reeducation through labor" system as part of efforts to improve human rights and judicial practices.
— Xinhua News Agency (@XHNews) November 15, 2013
China will loosen its decades-long one-child population policy, allowing couples to have two children if one of them is an only child.
— Xinhua News Agency (@XHNews) November 15, 2013