Here’s How China’s One-Child Policy Started in the First Place

With China’s one-child policy ending on Thursday after more than three decades, looking back to when—and why—the strict ...
Reason

What the ICE Crackdown and China's One-Child Policy Have in Common

In 1988, Peng Peiyun was assigned to China's State Family Planning Commission. Her job was to implement the relatively new one-child policy. The Communist Party was sure that it knew how many people ...
Digital Journal

China starts relaxing one-child policy

China began to implement the loosening of its controversial one-child policy on Friday when a province announced it has made it legal for couples to have two children if one parent is an only child.
CNBC

China social media thrashes one-child policy after population control czar dies

The death of a former head of China's one-child policy has been met not by tributes but by castigation of the abandoned policy on social media this week. State media praised Peng Peiyun, head of China ...
CNN

Ten years after it ended its ‘one-child’ policy, China’s push for more babies isn’t winning its citizens over

Welkin Lei has been doing some paper-napkin calculations in his spare time. As the 30-year-old from Beijing and his wife consider whether to have a second child, they face a question of resources.