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The legacy of China's one child policy
Thirty-five years ago today saw the start of perhaps the biggest experiment in social engineering the world's ever seen: a programme by the Chinese Communist Party to curb population growth. It became known as the One Child Policy. World Update examines its legacy with the 蜜芽传媒's Asia Pacific Editor Micky Bristow, and Kai Wang, who was born in Beijing in 1988.
(Photo: Girl playing in a fountain in Shandong province, China. Credit: FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images)
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