This book presents a factual analysis of the history of population policy, especially the fertility policy, mainly the reproduction of the policy since the founding of New China, especially the promotion of one child per couple, including the background of the policy's introduction, the formulation of the decision, the prediction of possible problems, and the choice of decision to deal with them. It summarises the basic experience of China and the international community in implementing population policies, and proposes to follow the path of family planning with Chinese characteristics and implement population policies that are compatible with it.

Is based on the author's personal experience and some of the first disclosed documentary materials Provides a high-level overview of historical process and characteristics of changes in population policy in New China Presents lessons for further adjustments in population policy in the future

Autorentext

Tian Xueyuan is a member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, former director of the Population Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and a participant in family planning policy. He is known as the "Father of Family Planning". He has led 6 major and key national projects and 5 cooperative projects with the United Nations Population Fund, the USA and Japan. He has written more than 20 monographs, including 60 Years of China's Population Policy and Research on China's Population Development Strategy in the 21st Century.

Inhalt

A Survey of China's Population Policies.- Warming Up to Population Policy in the Course of Debates.- The Years Before and After Introduction of One-Child Policy.- Relative Stabilization and Revision of Population Policies.- Growing Imperative of Population Policy Adjustment.- Population Policy and Sustainable Development.