The Chinese government implemented the universal two-child policy on January 1, 2016 to arrest the decline in the nation's birthrate and address the challenge of a rapidly aging population. We find that this policy significantly increased the possibility of having children and this effect was...

Examination of certain aspects of China's single-child family programme (SCFP) with particular reference to its operation in the countryside. The SCFP, which has been fashioned with a keen eye to inter-sectoral, inter-regional and inter-community differences, marks a profound change in the...

A crucial element in China's modernization effort is the control of population growth. The policy to encourage all couples to limit themselves to one child was announced in January 1979. The author examines the evolution of the one-child policy in Shaanxi against the backdrop of demographic and...

After scrutinizing the similarities between demographic trends in the PRC and Taiwan, the paper outlines the dissimilarities arising from the differences between the organized family planning programmes on both sides of the Taiwan Strait as well as from the effects of changes in economic and...