China One-Child Policy to Stay in Place

BEIJING (AP) — China will not consider changing its one-child policy for at least a decade for fear that a population surge could spark social and economic instability, the nation's top family planning official said in an interview published Monday.

Zhang Weiqing of the State Population and Family Planning Commission told the official China Daily newspaper that the one-child rule should be maintained for now.

"Given such a large population base, there would be major fluctuations in population growth if we abandoned the one-child rule now," he was quoted as saying. "It would cause serious problems and add extra pressure on social and economic development."


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It has been officially stated that the one child policy will remain in China for at least ten years, which is the end of the nations "birth-peak." The policy which was launched in the seventies has prevented 400 million births, but it only applies to a portion of the population.


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