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With the world’s largest population of 1.3 billion, in 1980, China’s government imposed the ____ which limited families to a single child and rural families to 2 children.
A
child limit policy
B
one-child policy
C
urban/rural child policy
D
government child policy
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The one-child policy was a program in China that limited most Chinese families to one child each. It was implemented nationwide by the Chinese government in 1980, and it ended in 2016.

Detailed explanation-2: -The government’s reason for abandoning the one-child policy, “to improve the balanced development of population, ‘’ hints at the gender discrimination and subsequent gender imbalance that resulted from the policy.

Detailed explanation-3: -The one-child policy was introduced in 1979 with the goal of relieving the strain the population was putting on demands for water and other resources. According to the government, about 400 million births have been prevented thanks to the one-child rule.

Detailed explanation-4: -China’s one-child policy, which had been enforced by then-leader Deng Xiaoping in 1980, had remained in place until 2016, when fears of a rapidly ageing population undermining economic growth forced the ruling Communist Party to allow two children per married couple.

Detailed explanation-5: -China’s one child family policy, which was first announced in 1979, has remained in place despite the extraordinary political and social changes that have occurred over the past two decades.

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