ONE NATION’S SELF-DISCIPLINE: VARIATIONS OF CHINESE POPULATION FROM ANCIENT SUPPORTIVE POLICIES TO THE CURRENT ONE-CHILD POLICY

Most international scholars think the one-child policy is the entirety of China’ family planning policy. Such thinking is completely wrong. Actually, the Chinese government never officially called its Population Planning Policy the “one-child policy.” Its official name is the Chinese Family Planning Policy. The Chinese Family Planning Policy remains a basic national policy position in China. It has changed and evolved over time. The one-child policy is only a central rule of Chinese family planning policies from 1980 to 2015. Start from 2015, the Chinese government had already changed the one-child policy, and China has entered a new era of two-child policy.