National Population and Family Planning Commission

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Agency overview
National Population and Family Planning Commission 国家人口和计划生育委员会
Headquarters	Beijing
Agency Executive	Li Bin, Chairman of the National Population and Family Planning Commission
Parent agency	State Council
Website
http://www.chinapop.gov.cn

National Population and Family Planning Commission (Chinese: 国家人口和计划生育委员会 Pinyin: Guójiā Rénkǒu hé Jìhuà Shēngyù Wěiyuánhuì) is the state agency responsible for population and family planning in the People's Republic of China.

1 Policies
2 Administration
3 List of Chairmen
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Policies

The government of China began to actively manage population growth in China in 1979. This is due to the enormous population on mainland China and growing birthrate. The government fears this may result in shortage of services, land, housing and other issues that affects large populations. ^[1]

Hence a new family planning policy was introduced. This is also known as the One-child policy. Urban citizens are able to have only one child and rural residents were given the maximum of two children. This was introduced to reduce or slow down the rate of birth in the population.^[2] Although China's population with the new family planning policy has had some success, the population is projected to reach 1.6 billion people in 2050.