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A national Chinese birth-planning program approved by the State Council
in 1971, encouraging later marriage, longer birth spacing, and fewer
children, and setting numerical population-growth-rate targets under Mao
— nearly a decade before the 1980 one-child policy.

Matters to this vault as the documentary basis for the claim that
coercive, campaign-driven birth limitation was already the norm in China
for a decade before Song Jian's 1978 encounter with population
cybernetics, complicating any "1980 was year zero" framing of the
one-child policy's origins.

## References

- [[claim-coercive-birth-limitation-predates-one-child-policy-by-decade]]