CHINA’S population is the largest on earth, with more than 1.34
billion people. Since its implementation in 1979, the one-child policy
has prevented more than 400 million births in China, according to
China’s National Population and Family Planning Commission.
However, the true nature of the one-child policy and what it entails was kept hidden until activists started exposing them. Some were jailed, others ran out of China. Most recently, it took a blind Chinese man Chen Guangcheng to reaffirm the true nature of china forced one child policy.
Chen Guangcheng’s 2005 investigation into coercive family planning practices in Linyi County, Shandong Province exposed 130,000 forced abortions and sterilizations in Linyi in that year alone. For exposing the government, he was jailed for four years and three months and remained under house arrest, where he was tortured and denied medical treatment, he recently escaped and went to the US Embassy for help but in an unclear twist, Chen ended up in the hands of the Chinese government.
However, the true nature of the one-child policy and what it entails was kept hidden until activists started exposing them. Some were jailed, others ran out of China. Most recently, it took a blind Chinese man Chen Guangcheng to reaffirm the true nature of china forced one child policy.
Chen Guangcheng’s 2005 investigation into coercive family planning practices in Linyi County, Shandong Province exposed 130,000 forced abortions and sterilizations in Linyi in that year alone. For exposing the government, he was jailed for four years and three months and remained under house arrest, where he was tortured and denied medical treatment, he recently escaped and went to the US Embassy for help but in an unclear twist, Chen ended up in the hands of the Chinese government.
