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the simple answer is over population in china, the main reason for this over population is there is a big chunk of china that is just dessert , however from a historical perspective is how you find the necessity for the one child policy. when china became communist in 1949 they felt threatened by Russia so the government gave incentives to families to have children especially boys to build a strong army. well as you can expect it got a little out of hand :P and the one child policy was applied in 1979 because the country couldn't cope with the rate of population growth

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