The Open Letter (Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, 25 September 1980)

An open letter issued by the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, dated 25 September 1980, in the immediate wake of the third session of the Fifth National People's Congress giving its "seal of approval to a new policy" that same month — the document Greenhalgh's 2003 article describes as the moment after which "the one-child policy was effectively set in political stone."

Matters to this vault as the specific document behind the recurring but previously unnamed "1980 launch" language in claim-coercive-birth-limitation-predates-one-child-policy-by-decade and Whyte, Wang & Cai's essay — the anchor on one side of the interpretive fork claim-decade-vs-seven-years-fork-depends-on-policy-origin-anchor identifies between an official-launch reading of "the one-child policy" and a recommendation-origin reading anchored to the June 1978 leading-group meeting.

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• claim-whyte-wang-cai-and-greenhalgh-2003-converge-on-same-three-stage-timeline
• claim-decade-vs-seven-years-fork-depends-on-policy-origin-anchor