Whilst reading, I came across an article about China’s 2 child policy. Apparently, a 2 child policy has been around in some places with a majority Han population since the 80’s. I understand that the rule only applied to 4 small areas and was created as a result of Liang Zhongtang of the Shanxi Academy of Social Science. He thought that the population could be better managed, by encouraging later marriage and larger gaps between birth.
Elsewhere, I heard that the average age at which women marry has gone up in Shanghai. It appears to me, from my basic knowledge, that some of Liang’s ideas about later marriage appear to be a direction that China is taking.