OCP hasn’t been the responsibility of the central government for years. The provinces are, predictably, weakening the policy where politically feasible. From wikipedia:
In response to [4-2-1], all provinces have decided that couples are allowed to have two children if both parents were only children themselves: By 2007, all provinces in the nation except Henan had adopted this new policy; Henan followed in 2011.
The one child policy is far from uncontroversial.
Yet it is sufficiently entrenched that the Chinese government shows few signs of dropping it soon even with the 4-2-1 problem looming.
OCP hasn’t been the responsibility of the central government for years. The provinces are, predictably, weakening the policy where politically feasible. From wikipedia: