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Demographic Implications of Family Size Alternatives in the People's Republic of China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Charles H. C. Chen  and
Carl W. Tyler
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According to an official Chinese report, the population of China has increased from 540 million in 1949 to 960 million in 1978, an average annual rate increase of about 20 per 1,000 population. In view of adverse socio-economic effects of the rapid population growth in the past the Chinese Government has recently begun encouraging the one-child family in an attempt to achieve the target of zero population growth by the turn of this century, as part of the effort to promote the Four Modernizations in the fields of agriculture, industry, science and technology, and defence.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 89 , March 1982 , pp. 65 - 73
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1982

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* The authors would like to thank Dr Wang Shaoxian, senior lecturer of the Department of Health Statistics, Beijing Medical College, Beijing, the People's Republic of China, for her technical assistance on this project during her stay at the Center for Disease Control as a United Nations Fund for Population Activities Fellow. However, the authors remain solely responsible for the interpretations and conclusions reached in the paper.

The authors also wish to thank John S. Aird, chief of Foreign Demographic Analysis Division, the Bureau of the Census, the United States, who provided the data on which this paper is based.

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