At the start of 2016,CPC Central Committee and State Council issued a decision on implementing a comprehensive two-child policy,reforming and improving the management of family planning services.This paper reviews theoretical and practical perspectives of the decision and discusses the what and the why of the two-child policy.In carrying out and implementing the decision,the major tasks involve organizing and implementing the two-child policy in accordance with the law,reforming maternity services management system,strengthening maternal and child health and family planning services,improving family planning rewards support system,strengthening organizational leadership,strengthening grass-roots work,and improving childbearing security.Family planning policy is a longterm basic national policy in China; however,China’s future family planning work needs to be reoriented to achieving demographically an appropriate scale,high-quality,structure optimization,and rational distribution,and to forming a multi-governing structure of the government,society and the citizens.