China's 1 Child Policy

Question 1

What was China’s population?

Answer 1

1.2 billion

Question 2

What was encouraged in china during the 20th century?

Answer 2

Having as many children as possible for patriotic reasons

Question 3

How much was population growing by?

Answer 3

55 million every three years

14 million every year

Question 4

In 1963 what was the average amount of children born per woman?

Answer 4

7.5

China regarded a growing population as a way to get fast and economic development

Question 5

What changed in the 1970’s?

Answer 5

Concern over the growth rate grew as the birth rate was 31 per 1000 and average family size was 3 children per family

Question 6

Why was the policy needed?

Answer 6

Continuing population growth would result in 
Extreme poverty 
Lack of food/ drinking water 
Over cultivation/ famine 
Traffic congestion 
Not enough services 
Air land and water pollution

Question 7

What happened in 1979?

Answer 7

Th state forcibly introduced the one child policy

Question 8

What was the marriageable age set to?

Answer 8

20 for women and 22 for men

Question 9

What did people have to apply

To do?

Answer 9

To get married and to have a child

Must be sterilised after first child or abort future pregnancies

Question 10

What was given to couples who conformed?

Answer 10

5-10% salary increase (urban)
Bigger land allocation (rural) 
Extended maternity leave 
Paid medical expenses
Priority housing and free education for child

Question 11

Who exempt?

Answer 11

Ethnic minority’s (only applied to Han Race)

Question 12

What happened to those who didn’t conform?

Answer 12

Made to pay large fines
Deprived of benefits
Family allowances withdrawn
Pressure to abort second pregnancy (including cuts to colleagues salary)

Question 13

Who were the granny police?

Answer 13

Older women of a community who carried out regular checks on couples of child bearing age

Accompanied women on contraception appointments to ensure they attended

Question 14

What were three benefits of the policy?

Answer 14

The famine that was expected never happened
Population growth has slowed enough for there to be enough jobs
Increased technology and exploitation of natural resources increased standard of living for many

Question 15

What are three problems of the policy?

Answer 15

Women had to abort as late as 9 months

Government had control over people’s private lives

Many girls places in orphanages or left to die as Chinese society prefers boys

Question 16

What were the main exceptions to the policy?

Answer 16

Having a first child with a disability that is likely to result in inability to work

Risk of losing the family line without a second child

Rural families with real difficulties

Question 17

What was successful about the policy?

Answer 17

Population growth slowed sufficiently to allow enough food and jobs

China’s birth rate fell from 31 to 19 in twenty years

Estimated that population is 300 million less than it would have been without the policy

Question 18

Why is the policy unlikely to be relaxed anymore?

Answer 18

600million ( half the population) still live on less than $2 per day

Question 19

What other changes were made to the policy?

Answer 19

Two only children that married could have two
If you could pay the fine you could have 2
Farmers could have 2 if first is disabled or girl

Question 20

What happened in 2016?

Answer 20

The policy was abolished