Relaxed birth policy could lure talents home   

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(ECNS) -- China's announcement that it will loosen its one-child policy has received warm responses among Chinese communities in the United States, with more professionals saying they might choose to return to the country, the World Journal (US) has reported.

Many Chinese couples had hesitated to go back because of the one-child policy, the report said.

Li, a Chinese American who works at a New York bank, said he refused an offer from a promising company in Beijing eight years ago, as one child "is far from enough for us." He added that many overseas students might chose to return now because of the policy change.

Cathy Huang, an overseas student at New York University, told reporters that her cousin in Shanghai had considered immigrating to the US for a second child, but has now changed her mind.

China will loosen its decades-long one-child policy, allowing couples to have two children if one of them is an only child, according to a key decision issued last Friday by the Communist Party of China (CPC).