"Economic development is like a cake, we need to control the growth of the number of people who eat the cake."
The formulation of China's family planning policy is related to economic development. In 1976, a special era had just ended, and within a few years, the state adjusted its policies and began to pursue economic development.
Family planning, an economy-related policy, has changed the lives of all people.
The braking of the family planning policy has a lot to do with two people, one is an expert in aerospace and the other is a mathematician in China.
Family planning was originally related to an academic seminar, and here I have to introduce you to a person - Song Jian, born in 1931, is an expert in aerospace technology, systems engineering and cybernetics in China.
This academic issue, which laid the foundation for family planning, is related to Song Jian.
In 1975, when a delegation of Chinese scientists visited the Netherlands, Song Jian chatted with a Dutch mathematician Aersted after dinner.
Mathematician Alsted casually rebuked an academic problem that gave Song Jian great inspiration.
"How to control the growth of the population on an imaginary island"? That's what Alsted casually says about the academic issues he's been working on lately.
Regarding the problem of controlling the population on the island, Alsted also gave the best way to solve the problem based on mathematical equations.
Let's talk about some of the situations in our country at that time, it was the beginning of reform and opening up, China not only had to vigorously grasp the economy, but also to find ways to control China's population, in fact, controlling the population was also for the economy, after all, at that time, it was necessary to "control the people who eat cake".
Song Jian was inspired by Alsted's answer to the island's question of controlling population on small islands, and he felt that Olsted's equation could also be applied to the practical problem of controlling population growth in China.
After returning to China, the mathematical equation of "small islands to control population" in Orsted lingered in his mind, and after getting in touch with China's high-level leaders, Song Jian began to lead the team to carry out China's population ** and planning.
Song Jian also made a very pleasant discovery.
They found that the parabolic trajectory of the missile in flight was exactly the same as the law of population growth in their **.
After that, Song Jian and his team simulated a set of plans on computer for the growth trend of Chinese population and how to control it.
After confirming that the plan they had drawn up was correct in all respects, they immediately published an article in which Song Jian and others mentioned that in order to prevent China's population from growing by any margin, China should vigorously advocate having only one child per couple in the next 30 to 40 years.
Of course, one of the points that people are disputing about family planning today is that it will cause the aging of Chinese society in the future.
In the 21st century, China will face a serious aging population.
At that time, researchers took such a serious problem into account, and looked at how Song Jian and the others viewed the problem of China's aging in the future.
Based on the proportion of the population by age group, they speculated that the problem of population aging will not appear until 40 years from now.
They feel that they can take relevant measures in advance to prevent this from happening, and then there is that, more than 30 years later, China's labor force is about 600 million, and it is completely possible to adopt a different population policy. Therefore, the problem of labor force and population aging will be effectively solved in the future.
Before Song Jian and others did relevant population research, someone saw various problems of the Chinese population, and this person was Ma Yinchu, the president of Peking University at that time.
But at that time, Ma Yinchu's theory of population control was not recognized by the state.
At that time, Ma Yinchu also wrote the "New Population Theory" according to the situation of Chinese society, and all his relevant views were denied, and he himself was criticized.
Let's take a look at what Ma Yinchu's "New Population Theory" is all about.
China's feudal society for more than 2,000 years is very much the pursuit of the family's "prosperity", unlike today's medical technology is already a very developed situation.
At that time, the mortality rate of newborn babies was very high, because of some concepts, there was also a high mortality rate, in order to be able to pass on the family incense well, the ancients did their best to have more children.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's medical and health level has also been greatly improved, and the survival rate of newborn babies in China has also been greatly improved. By 1954, China had a population of 600 million. China needs to bear more demographic pressures.
Based on the change of social background, Ma Yinchu put forward the "New Population Theory". Ma Yin initially felt that China needed to rein in population growth. Based on the theories of Song Jian and Ma Yinchu, the family planning policy was formulated.
Of course, compared with the current Chinese population, the figure of 600 million does not sound so exaggerated. But the main thing is to take into account the social context.
Nowadays, the domestic economy is developing rapidly, the world has been integrated, China needs to import a large number of agricultural products from abroad every year, two years ago someone made such an estimate, China's agricultural products imported from abroad can account for almost three percent of the world's sowing area.
In addition, natural gas and oil also need to be imported from abroad, and food and resources that 1.4 billion people depend on for their livelihood need to be imported in large quantities.
Looking at what the situation was in 1954, the domestic economy was extremely underdeveloped, the long-term economic development plan - the First Five-Year Plan had just started a year or so, and China had already borne a lot of pressure on the population of 600 million at that time.
As a result, the country's economic development has not risen, and China is poor and weak. There are countless examples in the history of our country, such as the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Coalition and the invasion ......of China by the Japanese army
At that time, the most important thing was to develop China's economy and build the army well.
Nowadays, the United States and a number of allies are eyeing China, and the reason why they dare not do it directly is that the country has developed well, and if China were still the same as it was decades or hundreds of years ago, they would now estimate that they would greet China with any shells, so at that time, there was nothing wrong with focusing mainly on the economy.
Of course, there are also drawbacks to family planning, such as the aging of the population and the shortage of labor, and it is still impossible for a policy to be perfect.
A series of problems such as the aging of the population can only be improved with new policies.