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Taylor Wittke
English 151
Shane Hunter
4/3/15
With having over 1.3 billion people, China is one of the most populous countries in the world (China Population). The enormous population of China has caused overpopulation and has been a major problem in the country for a rather long time. China has already made attempts to slow down there population growth, but they haven’t seemed to be very efficient when doing so. The solution to control the population growth effectively starts with how well the parents are capable of having and raising a child. Programs and being strict about certain rules can really help to amplify population decrease. Overpopulation is when a specific area is way too populated for the resources that are available to the people of that area. (Negative Population). China isn’t capable of providing and keeping up with the high rate of growth in the population that is rising yearly.
The great rise in population occurring in China first arose approximately 25 years ago and has increased at a tremendous rate since then. China’s population started to increase dramatically after World War II and has not been able to be stopped. It first started in 1949 with Mao Zedong, who declared the founding of the Peoples Republic in China. He encouraged the
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Chinese to have as many children as they could in able to help bring more money into the country, as well as help out the economy of China. His overall belief was that “the more people, the stronger we are” (Potts). Under his ruling, the Chinese population grew to a tremendous amount, reaching unbelievable numbers compared to the rest of the world. The population continued to grow extremely rapidly and is still increasingly growing today. There are almost twice as many people in China than there are in American and European Countries. The world population is around 7 billion people and China accounts for almost 20 percent of that gigantic number. To better help understand this: for every
Taylor Wittke
English 151
Shane Hunter
4/3/15
With having over 1.3 billion people, China is one of the most populous countries in the world (China Population). The enormous population of China has caused overpopulation and has been a major problem in the country for a rather long time. China has already made attempts to slow down there population growth, but they haven’t seemed to be very efficient when doing so. The solution to control the population growth effectively starts with how well the parents are capable of having and raising a child. Programs and being strict about certain rules can really help to amplify population decrease. Overpopulation is when a specific area is way too populated for the resources that are available to the people of that area. (Negative Population). China isn’t capable of providing and keeping up with the high rate of growth in the population that is rising yearly.
The great rise in population occurring in China first arose approximately 25 years ago and has increased at a tremendous rate since then. China’s population started to increase dramatically after World War II and has not been able to be stopped. It first started in 1949 with Mao Zedong, who declared the founding of the Peoples Republic in China. He encouraged the
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Chinese to have as many children as they could in able to help bring more money into the country, as well as help out the economy of China. His overall belief was that “the more people, the stronger we are” (Potts). Under his ruling, the Chinese population grew to a tremendous amount, reaching unbelievable numbers compared to the rest of the world. The population continued to grow extremely rapidly and is still increasingly growing today. There are almost twice as many people in China than there are in American and European Countries. The world population is around 7 billion people and China accounts for almost 20 percent of that gigantic number. To better help understand this: for every
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