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Creation of the one- child policy
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Period: to
Duration of the policy
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China's population exceeds 800 million
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China adopts the slogan "late, long and few", encouraging couples to have one child, and urging them to have no more than two
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The Communist party says couples should have no more than one child
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China adjusts the policy, allowing a second child for some families in rural areas and for couples who were both an only child, and in some other specified circumstances
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New laws decreed to better manage the administration of the policy, including penalties for unapproved births
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China adds an exemption allowing two children for families in which one parent, rather than both, is an only child
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One-child policy scrapped, allowing all couples to have two children for the first time in more than three decades