Impact of Family Planning on Chinese Families

ince its inception in the late 1970s and along with the reform and opening-up drive, the family planning program in China has brought significant changes to the national economy as well as people抯 lives. During the two decades, the central government and the State Council issued a series of documents guiding the national family planning work. These include the Open Letter to All Party and Youth League Members on Controlling Population Growth in China issued in 1980, the Decision on Stre…