Why did china institute the one-child policy in 1970?

The one child policy, was an official program initiated in the late 1970s and early '80s by the central government of China, the purpose of it being to limit the great majority of family units in the country to one child each. The rationale for implementing the policy was to reduce the growth rate of China's enormous population.

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