China’s One-Child Policy and Implementation

• Main Author: Li, Xiaofei
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2012
• Subjects: One-Child Policy; China; Population Control; Fertility
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/apssr/vol12/iss2/2; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/apssr/article/1007/viewcontent/2_chinas_one_child_policy_and_implementation.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

Though China had been plagued by famines since ancient times, it was not until the Great Chinese Famine in the late 1950s and early 1960s that the state became proactive against future famines. In 1979, under the conviction that overpopulation was threatening China’s existence, Deng Xiaoping impleme...