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Why have a max number of kids at all? From what I hear, China desperately needs more kids.
Because it would meant hat the CCP would have to retreat out of this particular part of life and give up a method of control and oppression, which a totalitarian party could never do.
It could also be seen as admitting they were wrong about the policy in the first place.
Hooray! I'm so glad, as a human, that were so comfortable with failure since it's something we all do. And we know that we can admit when we fault and we can then do the work of righting the wrong instead of continuing going forever because we can't be seen to have made a mistake. /s (fucking devastatingly so)
Yeah at the point of 3, I don't see the point in having a max.
A gradual decline in population is a good thing, so they probably don't want to overshoot too much. Also maybe the minorities pushed for keeping some restrictions.
From what I understand, the one child policy tanked their birthrate so much that the country is expected to never recover. Current economies are basically dependent on a growing population to support the elderly and retired members of the population. Countries can somewhat get by through immigration to prop up a low birthrate, but that can only take you so far.
This applies only when labour is in short supply. Japan and Germany have heavily automated their industry for this reason, and China seems to be on this track.
Apart from the labour shortage, a gradually declining population is a good thing. The earth can only give us so many resources, and unless we reduce our numbers - particularly among the rich - we are headed towards extinction.