ABSTRACT
China’s fertility limitation policies consist of a set of regulations that encourage late marriage and childbearing and limit couples to one or two children (depending on the circumstances of the couple). Fertility limitation was voluntary in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) until 1970, when Chinese leaders initiated an unevenly enforced campaign to limit each couple to two children. The Chinese government promulgated a one-child policy in 1978 and has enforced it, with some exceptions, from 1979 to 2015 (when it was changed to a two-child policy).
