CHINA'S ONE-CHILD POLICY

China's One-Child Policy: Controlling Population Growth.



China's One-Child Policy: Controlling Population Growth.

One-Child Policy

The People's Republic of China (PRC) is the world's most populous country, comprising 21 percent of the global population. After almost three decades of radical Maoist Communism and nearly a decade of increasingly compulsory family planning, China, in 1978, launched both its market-oriented economic reform era and its unique one-child policy. These two plans appear to be contradictory in that the economic reforms loosen the prior meticulous government controls on people's lives under the planned economy, while the one-child policy micro-manages the most intimate parts of ...