China overpopulated

Overpopulation in China has become a global issue as China is one of the most, if not the most populated country in the world. The People’s Republic of China has had this problem for many years and still the government hasn’t come up with an effective solution.

China’s population started to increase dramatically after World War II. In 1949 the People's Republic of China lead by Mao encouraged Chinese families to have as many children as possible, this was because the government thought the population increase would bring money to the country and help China produce more food, build a better army, develop water control, and establish communication systems. The problem was the population didn't stop growing after that and by 1953 it had grown to about 583 million people, meaning millions per year.

By 1964 the Chinese government realized they had a problem on their hands and came out with the “Later Sparcer Fewer Policy”. The problem with this policy was that there were still too many people, that even though families were having fewer children further apart and later in life the population was still growing.
In 1979 the government had to come up with a new plan. A very extreme plan. The “One Child Policy”. This policy says that each couple living in the urban areas should have only one child, unless one or both parents are from an ethnic minority or they are both only children. In most rural areas, a couple may have a second child after a break of several years. But ofcourse that as every policy it has its positive side and negative one.

In the positive side it improves women’s health and gives them a better status, also requires not only wives but also husbands, to bear the responsibility of family planning, reduces the overpopulation problems. But this policy has a bigger negative side than a positive one, because many families are killing their new born babies, if they are not males, having more than one child is seen as a criminal act, between others.

The main trouble facing China today is that their population is “old”. The new generations are too small and the Chinese country is in need of young people with fresh and new ideas, with the fighting spirit a country needs to improve, spirit that is no longer in the old genertions.