HISA06H3 Chapter : GLOBALIZING - one child policy.docx
Document Summary
Nowdays, local population control policy was increasingly centered on providing high-quality services for rural citizens to cover a variety of issues such as childbearing and child rearing and informed options about contraception, abortion and women"s reproductive health. Other that is always seen as lacking something good and hence needing the state"s incessant guidance, discipline and efforts at civilization. 1962-1970: china saw a net increase of 170 million ppl with an average total fertility rate of 5. 91 children per woman. After the cultural revolution, state leaders began to recognize that such rapid population growth was incompatible with the nation"s planned economy. 15 per thousand in rural areas: so birth policies increased the legal age fro marriage, specified minimum birth intervals, and required couples to bear no more than two children. Characteristic of the late maoist era, the state claimed the slowdown of the local population growth rate as a great success of the maoist ideology of class struggle movement.
