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	Podcast:		People In the Know
	Episode:		Head of China's National Health and Family Planning Commission Meets the Press
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:25:01
	Publish Date:		2016-03-17 20:10:09
	Description:		Chinese officials have suggested that the country's population will not grow out of control, despite the recent relaxation of the family planning policy. Li Bin, the minister in charge of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, answered questions on the subject on the sidelines of the fourth session of China's 12th National People's Congress in BeijingSo what are the biggest strains on the Chinese healthcare system? How can these be addressed? And what effects will the relaxation of the family planning policy have on Chinese society? PIK speaks with Lawton Robert Burns, Chair of the Health Care Management Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Yanzhong Huang, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor at Seton Hall University in New Jersey.
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