Checking the Trend of Overrapid Population Growth
1 min readIn the 15 years from the founding of the People’s Republic to 1964，China’s population increased from 500 million to 700 milon，and on average 7.5 years were needed for the population to increase by 100 million.
The 1964-74 period was one of high-speed growth where China’s population increased from 700 million to 900 million in ten years，and the time needed for the population to increase by 100 million was shortened to five years.In 1973，China began to promote family planning throughout the country.China’s population increased from 900 million to 1.2 billion in the period from 1973 to February 1995，and the time needed for the population to increase by 100 million was again lengthened to around seven years.
China has been through the third post-1949 peak period of births from thebeginning of the 1990s，the community of women in their prime of fertility（aged 20 to 29）has exceeded 100 million each year on average，and such a huge child-bearing community has a great birth potential still.But，because China’s current population and family planning programmes and policies have won understanding and support from the people，the fertility level of the population has steadily reduced and the trend of overrapid population growth has been effectively checked along with the country’s economic and social development.Now，China’s urban population has basically accomplished the change-over to the population reproduction pattern characterized by low birth rate，low death rate and low growth；and the rural population is currently in this process of change-over.
