a senior Chinese official said yesterday. rejecting concern that limits on the number of children had shrunk the pool of workers needed to support an ageing population Last year, the ruling Chinese Communist Party announced it would relax its long-standing and controver- sial"one-child policy", allowing all couples to have two children. Officials would adhere to family planning restrictions"for the long term" Vice Minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission Wang Peian said. "This long-term adherence is at least 20 years, 30 years," Wang said"After a period of time, along with demographic changes, and along with changes in the population's Socio-economic development situation, we will adopt a different population policy"-Reuters