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Economic Incentives for the One-child Family in Rural China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Ashwani Saith
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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.

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Reports from China
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The China Quarterly , Volume 87 , September 1981 , pp. 492 - 500
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1981

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* The author was a member of two groups from Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, which made three-week research trips into rural China during June 1979 and June 1980 under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. This paper is based on detailed discussions with Wang Tugen who, apart from being the Director of the Women's Association of Zhangqing People's Commune in Suzhou Municipality, is also a Vice- Chairman of the Management Committee of the commune, with responsibility for education, public health, family planning, and mediation of quarrels. She provided the document (see Appendix) listing the new trial regulations on family planning, for a translation of which I am grateful to Cyril Lin.

1. Renmin ribao, 19 April 1980, p. 1.