During the last National People's Conference in China, one of the touchiest subjects brought up was a revision to the One-Child-Per-Family policy China has adopted in order to prevent large population growth and possible famine. People opposed to the law say the rapid change in population growth would make it impossible to properly feed the people of China, however, the facts are not in their favor. Compared to many other countries, China doesn't have the ratio of people-to-arable land that other countries do, but it has more than almost all other countries. It can do much more to gain a higher food output to, like making the agricultural process more modern. It is not making full use of its arable land, which makes the prediction of famine groundless if China improves. Another fear is that this revision will rapidly increase the rate of Urbanization, which it will, but not to an extent of being harmful. Overall, the oppositions arguments are groundless, which should be taken into consideration the next time the issue roles around.
The authors's opinion is that the arguments of the people opposed to the revision are not true and should not be believed to be so. The purpose of this article is to inform the people of China and the world that there can be a revision to the law and the outcomes will not be as some have predicted, but will be much more mild and manageable. This article is important because it shows how the economic, geographic, and agricultural traits of an area can affect the political and social aspects as well.
Source: http://worldcrunch.com/opinion-analysis/how-old-fears-of-famine-keep-china-039-s-one-child-policy-alive/one-child-birth-control-demography-culture-food/c7s11202/#.UVousByG2Lw
Imagine how many Chinese there would be if the one child law didn't apply any more. They may be top of their game now, but with that many more citizens, how could the country keep up with production and agriculture?
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