This Day, That Year

Item from Aug 8, 1988, in China Daily: A billboard in Neijiang, Sichuan province - China's most populous - warns citizens about the dangers of uncontrolled population growth.

As a result of local family planning regulations, the birth rate is falling in several Chinese provinces.

An official from the State Family Planning Commission said more measures will be taken to carry out the government's family planning policy to meet its population target of 1.2 billion by the end of the century.