Children play by fountains in the shopping precinct in Sanlitun, Beijing. There was a 'one-child policy' , a population planning initiative in China implemented between 1980 and 2015 to curb the country's population growth by restricting many families to a single child. That initiative was part of a much broader effort to control population growth that began in 1970 and ended in 2021

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