Do they still practice population control in China?
The most recent estimate of China’s population puts the figure at 1,313,973,713 by July 2006. That’s a lotta folks. This January press release from The China Population Information and Research Center states that the country “will work to limit its mainland population below 1.37 billion by 2010.” China famously set a limit of one child per couple in 1979. In 1986, the limit was increased to two children for non-Han ethnic minorities. Currently, most rural families can have two or more children if the first is female and the children weren’t born too close together. The one-child policy has been liberalized over the years because the declining birth rate has created, among other problems, a “
