China’s 1-Child Policy Takes Persuasive Turn

After failing to sufficiently curb population growth with a harsh one-child policy, China will try new methods to convince people to have fewer children.

Peng Peiyun, who heads the State Family Planning Commission, said that China needs to rely less on administrative fiat.

Peasants must be made to realize that having fewer children will make their families richer, healthier and happier, she said. She did not say how this would be done.