What is the history of the One-Child Policy in China?

With China's one-child policy ending on Thursday after more than three decades, looking back to when—and why—the strict policy was first implemented shows us how China's demographics have shifted in critical ways. read more

Birth control was not encouraged in China in the early years of the revolution. This was because of Mao's primitive understanding of economics. He believed that the greater the labour power, the greater the growth. read more

One-child policy, official program initiated in the late 1970s and early ’80s by the central government of China, the purpose of which was to limit the great majority of family units in the country to one child each. read more

History of the One-Child Policy China’s One-Child Policy was formally instituted 30 years ago on September 25, 1980, in an open letter by the Chinese Communist Party. Up until that date, the government had campaigned locally and nationally for voluntary birth control and discouraged excess reproduction. read more