One Child Policy

• Enforced abortions and sterilisations

200,000 ordered abortions by the end of 2001 in mountainous region Huaiji

1500 abortions an hour, 336 million in total

• Female Infanticide

Boys > Girls

'Little Emperor' syndrome - 140 million by 2014

• Rate of population now 0.7%

2nd child allowed if first girl is a child or if both parents are only children

• Still has a very large total population of 1.4 billion
• Two child policy?
• By 2020 there will be 30 million more men than women aged between 20 and 45

• Policy resisted in rural areas where it was tradition to have large families
• More children needed in rural areas for agricultural work
• Difficult to control in remote areas
• Worried of economic implications of an ageing popluation
  • not enough carers in the future
  • reducing workforce
• Social influence of western world

In 1979 the One Child Policy was introduced...

• Use contraception
• Family planners
• 'Granny Police'
• Enforced abortions and sterelisations

It was introduced because population was spiraling out of control.

The popluation was increasing by 55 million every year, the equivalent of the UK's population