China Announces Birth-Rate Reduction Plans
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment Series
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Science, Environmental Issues
- Subcategories: Laws, Acts, Legislation, Ecology, Environment, Conservation, Demographics, Population
- Curriculum: Asian History
- Geographical Location: Beijing
- Date: August 11, 1979
Article abstract: China adopted a one-child-per-family policy with the goal of keeping China’s population from growing beyond 1.2 billion people in the year 2000.
Summary of Event
On August 11, 1979, the Chinese Communist Party newspaper Renmin ribao (People’s Daily) published an article by Vice Premier and Head of the State Family Commission Chen Muhua entitled “To Realize the Four Modernizations, It Is Necessary to Control Population Increase in a Planned Way.” The article announced government plans to implement a controversial...
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