Tag: Chinese governance
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China Social Media Roasts One-Child Policy as Population Control Chief Dies
Background: From Policy Pioneer to Public Reckoning China’s one-child policy, once touted as the engine of economic growth and social stability, has resurfaced in public discourse with renewed intensity after the death of Peng Peiyun, who led the Family Planning Commission from 1988 to 1998. State media memorialized her role in implementing a policy that…
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Peng Peiyun: From Enforcer of China’s One-Child Policy to Advocate for Its Ending
A pivotal figure in China’s family planning saga Peng Peiyun, a longtime Chinese Communist Party official whose career spanned from enforcing one of the country’s most controversial population policies to guiding its eventual shift away from that policy, has died at the age of 95. Her life mirrored China’s demographic ambitions and its evolving approach…