you are the only child they have. The One Child Policy was introduced in China in 1980. Its purpose was to decrease China's dangerously growing population. The One Child Policy was a good idea because it eased the impact on the environment, gave urban singleton daughters more choices, and rapidly reduced the fertility rates. One of the biggest issues caused by China's outrageous population growth, is how it impacts the environment. With the introduction of the one child policy, this became way less
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CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE 1. The One-Child Policy was necessary and was a good idea for China's population problem. In 1980, the One-Child Policy was passed by the Chinese government to serve as a solution to their overgrowing population, but was it effective? It was, and had many positive effects that came with it. Stated in Document C, Henan is a province in China that became the first to have 100 million residents. The problem with the province is that it has a quarter of the water and a fifth
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Prior to becoming the number one Superpower of the world, China were encouraged to “create manpower”(Clarke) and in consequence lost more than 15 million citizens according to government statistics(Fitzpatrick), during the Great Famine of 1958-1961. Following these man-made disasters and horrible weather conditions, the Chinese population doubled in order to support the demand of an ever changing industry, from farming to steel. Families were encouraged to have children in order to support the demand
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find a solution to the problem of increasing population. Therefore, in 1979 they introduced the one child policy that worked well in controlling the population and raised the living standards by keeping growth rates down. Moreover, the access to natural resources increased dramatically
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which have caused demographic and economic problems. In 1980 china introduced the one child policy which has drastically changes china’s demographic. Was it a good idea? I believe it was not a good idea because there have been many bad things that have come out of it; such as a negative mental effects as well as social effects, but there is one good thing to come out of this policy, population control. Being an only child has several hurt the mentality of only children in china, making them suicidal
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Although not readily apparent to outsiders, recent popula-tion policies have benefited many Chinese people; lives that would have died from being too poor to support themselves. Beijing officials estimate that 400 million births have been prevented due to population policies (Sullivan); if the One Child policy did not exist, China’s population would have been about 1.7 billion people. Would China be the second largest economy in the world
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Advocate for the two-child policy. 6 Promoting consumption 6 Solving population aging problems 7 Balancing skewed sex ratio 7 Boosting the real estate 8 References 9 Introduction China has resolved to put an end to the three-decade-long one-child policy and each couple are allowed to have two children. Shortly after the announcement of the two-child policy, the article in appendix was written by a professor at Shanghai Academy in China Daily to advocate for the policy. And the target persons
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Open Up Birth Control Policy Recently years, China’s government has recognized some disadvantages that the One-child Policy resulted, so the government decided to implement a new policy. The one-child Birth Control Policy was established to limit communist China’s population growth. There are both some advantages and disadvantages between China’s old birth control policy and China’s new birth control policy. But generally, it is obvious that the new China birth control policy is adjusted more to
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The one-child policy is a population control policy that was introduced in 1979 to relive social, economic, and environmental problems in China. At the time the growth rate of China’s population was very high and the main purpose of the policy was to limit the large family units in the country to one child each. After implementing the policy, the government hoped to see reduction in the growth rate of its enormous population. Sometimes couples can have a second child only if their first
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give up the one-child policy. The disadvantages of China’s one child policy are many. It has caused appalling human rights abuses in China, including forcible abortions and sterilizations. Since the policy went into effect, China has had a significant gender imbalance, an abnormal sex ratio. China’s rapidly aging population—combined with lower fertility rates—is expected to present significant social and economic challenges. It also brings other problems, for example, the "four-two-one" problem and
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