The Single-child Family Policy in the Countryside

Delia Davin

Chapter 2 in China’s One-Child Family Policy, 1985, pp 37-82 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As 80 per cent of China’s population is rural and 87.2 per cent of births in China occur in the countryside it is ultimately there that the battle to control population growth will be won or lost.1 Far greater efforts are needed in the villages than in the towns, not only because peasants vastly outnumber city-dwellers, but also because while some conditions historically associated with a rapid fall in fertility are present in the towns, this is not the case in the countryside. In the 1960s, China’s planners, like planners in many other developing countries, saw efficient delivery of the contraceptives and contraceptive education as the main tasks in population control. By the 1970s they had recognised that motivation was the fundamental problem.

Keywords: Family Planning; Chinese Communist Party; Production Team; Daily Report; Desire Family Size (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17900-8_2

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