The one-child policy that was introduced in the early 1970s in China has always been
a controversial issue, mainly for the world out of China. The idea of the state not only
choosing, but saying how many children can a family have sounds pretty off the range of the
state’s duties for the Europeans, but turned out to be really effective for the Chinese working
people when we consider that China has become the engine of the world economy by the
time. Now it is not only some prediction of the future outcomes of a certain policy and its
influence on the economy, but can be backed by four decades of experience. Assuming China
now has around 1.3 billion of citizens and realizing that this number could have been higher
by one third; first reasonable conclusion that can be drawn is that this policy got Chinese
economy on a sustainable path