China OCP the joyride whoopee lets go

Question 1

History

Answer 1

Mao Zedong’s 1958 great leap forward killed more than 30 million people due to overworking and exhaustion bc they didn’t have resources to cope with the idea of ‘more people stronger we are’. To reduce growth, it was introduced.

Deng Xiaoping in 1979 introduced OCP

Question 2

Conditions of OCP

Answer 2

• Han Chinese can only have one kid
• Ethnic minorities may have two
• Later in 1980s they allowed those who are single children to have 2 kids
• In some rural areas also allowed more kids especially if the first was a girl
• People with handicapped first children
• People with twins and such

Question 3

Enforcement

Answer 3

• Incentives: Employment, financial perks and longer maternity leave
• Fines for those who didn’t keep to
• Granny police - looking around neighbourhood to spy
• Forced abortions or sterilisations
• People who broke it were fired/ made to work without pay
• Propaganda
• Increased men’s marriage age to 22
• People needed to apply for a birth permit

Question 4

OCP today

Answer 4

In 2016 it was abolished. Nobody had to apply for a birth permit

Question 5

OCP Positives

Answer 5

• 400 m births prevented
• More resources for families to bring up children –> more success of children
• Greater rights for women as they have lesser children and they have more expectations by parents
• FR dropped below replacement level (2.1) to 1.6
• Couples that abided by enjoyed benefits

Question 6

OCP negatives

Answer 6

• 4-2-1 syndrome: one child of the family has to support their parents and grandparents –> strain
• Little emperor: children are pampered and lack social skills but have high self importance having no siblings
• Forced abortions etc. may have been traumatic
• Many kids went unregistered and hence wouldn’t have been able to be educated properly
• Sex selective abortions - more abortions of females. Otherwise they were killed, abandoned or put in orphanages –> many adopted by families in the USA. Gendercide. Sex ratio skewed and no 33.59 million more men and women.
• Ageing population and smaller youthful workforce –> by 2050 44% of pop. will be 65 and over.