2. Who We Are
National Health and Family Planning
Commission of the People’s Republic of
China
3. Outline
Original One-Child Policy
Background
Goals
Trend and Effects
Two-Child Policy
Goals and Causes
Effects
Costs and Benefits
Evaluation
Conclusion & Recommendation
4. Original One-Child Policy
Background
Introduced in 1979
Historical Situation
Chairman Mao’ Population Policy
Reform and Opening-up Policy
5. Original One-Child Policy
Why was the policy needed
Before the policy, the average amount of children per
women was 6. (overpopulation)
The growth rate in 1972 was 24%
China has a quarter of the world’s population but only
7% of the world’s land.
The aim is to limit China’s population to 1.2 billion by
2000.
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6. Original One-Child Policy
Administration and Implementation
Regulations include restrictions on family size, late
marriage and childbearing
At provincial and county levels devise local
strategies for implementation
(for urban residents and government employees; In
rural areas.)
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16. Two-child Policy
Goals and Causes
Balance Sex Ratios
Ease Population Aging
Balance Family Structure
Cost and Benefits
Effects
17. Two-Child Policy
Costs
Two-Child policy would
potentially bring greater burden
on households since the
expense to raise children are
soaring every year.
27. Conclusion & Recommendation
Conclusion
It needs to implement two-child policy
to ease the aging society pressure, balance the
sex ratios and have a health population structure;
no worry about boost of fertility rate