China's Population Growth and Its Economic Boom "1950 POPULATION = 550 MILLION" —Iowa State University --------------- One-child Policy - Chinese Government Program *One-child policy, official program initiated in the late 1970s and early ’80s by the central government of China, the purpose of which was 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. It was announ