Population Theory in China

Professor Ma Yinchu‘s New Population Theory was widely criticised and discredited in the early years of the People‘s Republic of China. However, in 1979, the Chinese government began to accept his hypothesis that the country could not afford more than a 2% increase in population and agreed that the population must be controlled. As a result, the government began setting out campaigns to promote single-child families and measures to curb fertility in an attempt to reduce the rate of natural ...