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World Service,6 mins

The legacy of China's one child policy

World Update

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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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'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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