With an enormous potential problem of China becoming weak to support its own country extreme measures had to be done to help resolve this issue before it gets even worse. This all started in 1949 after more than 20 years of war, Mao Zedong decided change had to be done in China. First he decided to become a Communist nation, which means workers control the government, then he ordered people to have more children to help create more workers which then later would mean “a stronger China” lastly he made a movement called The Great Leap Forward which resulted in a total failure, because people were faced with food shortages and an estimated 30 million people died. From this Mao Zedong created the One-Child Policy, allowing people to only have
