China’s One-Child Policy: Should It Be Abolished? After the People’s Republic of China had been founded in 1949‚ the improved sanitation and medicine promoted rapid population growth. Before long‚ the population boom started to take a major toll on the country’s food supply. Officials launched a campaign to promote birth control in 1955 in order to deal with the overpopulation. Their efforts were reversed though‚ in 1958 by the Great Leap Forward‚ which was Mao Zedong’s attempt to rapidly convert
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One child Policy Implemented in China In 1979‚ a one-child policy was introduced to control China’s growing population and reduce the damage on scarce resources. Despite its success on curbing their population and lowering the demand on resources‚ it’s important that the one child policy comes to an end. It’s the 21st century and a restriction on family size is archaic‚ ruthless as well as demeaning to human rights. How will the country be successful as a whole with such harsh regulations
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China is the world’s most populous nation and its population has‚ on average‚ increased by over 25 people every minute‚ every day for the past 40 years. Until the 1960’s china encouraged many births per family‚ because Mao believed that population growth made China more powerful. More people in china‚ meant more workers‚ which should let China catch up economically with wealthy countries. The population grew from around 540 million in 1949 to 940 million in 1976. Then beginning in 1970 the government
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Chinas One-Child Policy: The Gender Outbreak In 1979‚ the Chinese leader Deng Xiaping implemented the one-child per family policy with an aim to reduce the over population that was happening back then in China. Over half a century has passed and the so called “temporary law” is still in action believing that it is reforming work and improving the living standards of the people. However‚ the one-child per family policy has built many physical and mental disadvantages into the Chinese society and
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The one child policy in 1979 in an attempt to slow the rapidly growing population‚ initiated by Chinese officials has led to a multitude of uncalculated and sudden catastrophic impingements. These impingements have had‚ and will continue to have‚ large scale effects on China’s population. The Chinese government has begun to feel the recoil of their one child policy after the discovery was made that there is an approximant 120 to 100 ratio of males to females in China. This was a crucial discovery
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When one thinks of China it is common to conjure up images of rice fields and of the great wall‚ but also of crowded cities teeming with people and bicycles and cars. One rarely thinks of a nation populated mostly by men and boys‚ with a noticeable yet surreal absence of women. While this is a bit of an exaggeration‚ it has been noted over the past several decades that there is an alarmingly imbalanced sex-ratio. The policy has clearly contributed to the nation’s unnatural gender imbalance‚ as couples
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Control In China “ There are many ways to make the death rate increase” (Robert McNamara). The regulation of population via forced abortions‚ forced sterilizations‚ infanticide‚ and government programs does not only hurt the economy‚ but continuously damages it to a point of weakness and downfall. Population control in China has been hurting the Chinese people and destroying the Chinese economy for a span of 65 years‚ and continues to cause conflict even today. The one-child policy that exists
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One-child policy in China Term paper Submitted within the study programme Bachelor of Science in Business Administration For the module ACWE – Academic Writing in English Expert Valerie Faminoff Mangold Submission date 19.12.2012 Contents 1. Introduction In 1960 Chinese were allowed to have as many children as possible. It was even a good omen for the country1. In 1979 the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping established the one-child policy
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Essay Instructor Draft 15 Nov. 2012 It is the Time to Stop the One-Child Policy in China In 1979‚ the Population and Family Planning Commissions of China established a policy‚ which is the unique policy of China in the world‚ called the One-Child policy. According to the BBC News in the report of “China Steps Up ‘One Child‘ Policy‚” The ’one child ’ policy stipulates each couple living in the cities should only have one child‚ unless one or both of the couple are from an ethnic minority or they are
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The one child policy is a famous policy that was implemented in the People’s Republic of China. A Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping established it in 1979 to limit China’s population growth. By the name itself‚ the policy states that only one child is allowed in a household. However‚ if the first child is a girl‚ the couple is given another chance to have one more child but you can’t bear a child right after the first one. A well-known slogan in China: ” Late‚ Long‚ and Few” The policy advocates delaying
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