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China's One Child Policy Ends Now......... With China's one-child policy ending on Thursday after more than three decades, looking back to when—and why—the strict policy was first implemented shows us how China's demographics have shifted in critical ways. In the 1970s, many countries around the world were worried about population growth , but China, with its combination of a particularly large population and a powerful government, took an extreme approach to the problem. The country initially ran a successful birth control campaign under the slogan "Late, Long and Few," which cut population growth by half between 1970 and 1976. But, as the decade came to an end, that drop leveled off and the nation was still facing food shortages and fear of a repeat of the devastating famine that killed some 30 million people by 1962. For further reading, Please Click here http://wp.me/p5HMd-haH7 . Aboutme.SubinFinance Aboutme.SubinEconomics Aboutme...