Sentences with phrase «reform outdated rules»

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A growing number of scholars had urged the government to reform the rules, introduced in the late 1970s to prevent population growth spiraling out of control, but now regarded as outdated and responsible for shrinking China's labor pool.

In some cases, this difficulty is not for lack of developers who are willing to invest, or construction workers wanting to get back to work — it's because localities have not gotten around to reforming outdated, decades - old rules on housing development.