The one-child policy was started in 1979 by then-leader Deng Xiaoping. Here, children mark the 100th anniversary of his birth in front of his portrait
For the People’s Republic of China, 1 October 2009 was a special day: this National Day celebration marked 60 years since the takeover of mainland China by the Communist Party of China, in 1949.
After the Communists took control China’s population grew rapidly, from 563 million in 1950 to 1 billion in the early 1980s, as death rates fell and birth rates rose.
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