China's state planners told the world the one-child policy was a triumph that prevented hundreds of millions of births and powered China's rise. That's the boast. This video is about the bill. Families wanted sons. Tens of millions of girls were never born. Today China has tens of millions more men than women, mostly poor and rural. At the same time, millions of educated women in the cities can't find a husband. The state even gave them a name: "leftover women". Two groups, both single, who will never meet. Marriages are falling fast. Without weddings there are no babies, and without babies the population shrinks. Now the same government that limited births begs people to marry and have children, and almost no one listens. The verdict is on the policy, not the people. Beijing engineered its population for 35 years and got the result it built.
China's state planners told the world the one-child policy was a triumph that prevented hundreds of millions of births and powered China's rise. That's the boast. This video is about the bill.
Families wanted sons. Tens of millions of girls were never born. Today China has tens of millions more men than women, mostly poor and rural. At the same time, millions of educated women in the cities can't find a husband. The state even gave them a name: "leftover women".
Two groups, both single, who will never meet. Marriages are falling fast. Without weddings there are no babies, and without babies the population shrinks.
Now the same government that limited births begs people to marry and have children, and almost no one listens.
The verdict is on the policy, not the people. Beijing engineered its population for 35 years and got the result it built.