On the population scale of social development
By Li Xing | China Daily | Updated: 2008-12-18 07:45
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A nurse attends to newborns on Oct 4 in the No 1 People's Hospital in Xiangfan, Hubei province. Gong Bo |
In 1974, 25-year-old Sun Hongchun married Chu Wenfa, the 10th child in an extended family of some 60 members in Shandong province. Sun would hear her mother-in-law - whose generation of women had an average of 12 births - complain about how hard her life was with so many children.
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