![]() ![]() ![]() These have had flow-on effects on China’s social and economic development. The lasting effects of China’s one child policy include a significant gender imbalance, an ageing population, and a decline in the number of working-age citizens. Mei Fong, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, former China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and author of the book One Child, joins Elena Collinson to discuss the consequences of the policy for China and the rest of the world. Although the Chinese Government replaced it with a ‘two child policy’ in January 2016, the effects of the policy continue to reverberate. ![]() Host: Elena Collinson, Senior Project and Research Officer, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI), University of Technology SydneyĬhina’s one child policy was introduced by the Chinese Government in the post-Mao era in an attempt to curb the country’s population growth, which policymakers saw as an impediment to China’s economic development. Guest: Mei Fong, journalist and author, One Child (Bloomsbury, 2017) ![]()
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