Economic Incentives for the One-child Family in Rural China
- 1 September 1981
- journal article
- other
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The China Quarterly
- Vol. 87, 492-500
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000028976
Abstract
Since 1978 the one-child family has been increasingly advocated as the key element of the Chinese family planning programme. But this policy has been regarded as being addressed primarily to the urban population. In the course of a research tour of several communes in Hebei and Guangdong Provinces and in Jiading county in Shanghai Municipality in June 1979, it was evident that the policy on family planning still pivoted round the norm of the two-child family. However, in a more recent research trip made in June 1980, the policy had changed: as of late 1979, newly-married couples were expected to restrict the size of their family to three persons. Two-child families were disapproved of, and the new norm was the one-child family.Keywords
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