![]() ![]() Among them, an estimated 85 million to 100 million were born after 1980 - a period when three distinct government policies converged to shape the circumstances for increased rural-to-urban migration within China.Īfter its introduction in 1979, the controversial One Child Policy, which promoted late marriage and delayed child bearing and limited the number of children born in rural families to 1.5 (two for a first-born girl, otherwise one), was firmly implemented and shifted the vast rural China household structure - and thus, agricultural workforce - dramatically to fewer children. In 2009, there were 145 million rural-urban migrants in China, accounting for about 11 percent of the total population. ![]()
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