Did China realize the danger of increasing population and take effective steps to control it?
Yes, the policy in China has limited urban couples to one child & rural couples to two children if their first-born child was a girl. Ethnic minorities are however allowed to have two or three children because of the small size of their populations & because they typically lived in areas with harsh natural conditions. China’s one or two child policy has thus led to women resorting to abortions to avoid un-recommended children & has also pressured women & sometimes men too undergo sterilization after they had had the maximum number of children the government thought they should ideally have. When voluntary persuasion failed, woman could be taken by force to a government birth control clinic for an abortion or sterilization procedure. China’s approach has thus brought intense persuasion & even coercion bringing together all the social, psychological & economic tools a single-party centralized state has at its disposal.
