A day like today… China’s one-child policy has been abolished

The population explosion was such a major threat to China that it was decided to put a limit on the number of members per family. Thus, on September 25, 1980, the Chinese Communist Party officially launched the one-child policy that, on a day like today only in 2015, was eliminated.

How was this guideline implemented? After 35 years, what changes did it cause in China?

Even though the chinese revolution happened in 1949, the way of understanding family reality was not modified. For example, the ideals that they should be numerous and live in the same house were maintained, making several generations coincide in the same space. It was a way to keep memory alive.

In 1972However, the State realized that, if this custom was maintained, the problems would get out of control. By then the Party could no longer feed so many mouths, so he opted for a policy of birth control. How did they start? Sharing birth control methods and sending doctors across the nation.

Four years later, Mao Zedong he passed away and his absence was followed by panic. Would overpopulation get out of hand?

The first decision of the Party was to determine that families could only have two children, which began to be applied in 1979. The following year, it was reduced to only one. Thus began the one-child policy.

More details

The October 29, 2015, China announced the end of the one-child policy. After 35 years of stopping the birth rate -according to the BBC it prevented nearly 400 million births-, it was necessary to stop: the The country was aging and it was necessary to turn towards new directions.

The BBC recalls that, by 2013, the measure began to relax. It was allowed, for example, to have two children. However, two years later, only 15% of families had requested the special permit.

That is why it was necessary to annul the measure.

For 2016, beijing communicated to its citizens that everyone could have two children. And if from 2020 three are allowed, it is because now China faces a new problem: “negative growth”; that is, the imminent demographic reduction.

Source: Elcomercio

Ronald Payne

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