Deng Xiaoping

It is necessary to focus on the “One-child” policy in order to describe the political and economic situations and the demographic factors that led Deng Xiaoping in 1979 to formulate this legislation. This paper presents the positive, but especially the dramatic consequences of this law that affects today’s society. The “One-child” policy was one of the government's decisions regarding the family. The aim of the law was to reduce the strong demographic growth due to political reforms and the economic opening to the market. The purpose of this paper is to expose the development and introduction of this policy, and the social consequences. Those can effects can be represented by: gender imbalance, family structure change, and aging acceleration of the population. Another important impact is also highlighted by the socialization skills development of only children. In addition to this, the rules that govern the “One-child” policy …show more content…
However, in many areas of the country there was not yet a full understanding of the danger of the problem. From the early 1970, the government became more and more aware of the rapid demographic growth and its negative effects on the economic and social development. Therefore, Chinese government decided to introduce a ban on family planning in both urban and rural areas, and integrated a focus on the economic and social plan. At the end of the 1970s, Deng Xiaoping, the founding father of economic reforms, conducted a thorough analysis on China's basic national conditions, and focused its attention on the experiences and basis of the socialism, in order to reach the modernization. It is important to consider the main characteristics of the Chinese environment, such as its foundation, population growth, and the low ratio of cultivated land. This would demonstrate the need of creating equilibrium between population growth and economic, social and resource