摘要
Chinad s population policy and family planning programme have focused their attention on.a decline of the fertility rate.The Wan-Xi-Shao policy(i.e..the policy ofde ferred,spaced but fewer births)practised in the 1970s had brought about a rapid decline of the fertility leve1 in the coun-try.As aresult.the total fertility rate(TFR)of China's pop-ulation reduced from5.81 in1970 t 2.75 in 1979.Beginning from the late 1970s and early 1980s,the present family plan-ning policy,which encourages women of dhildbearing age to have only one child.has cont ributed to a continuous decline of the fertility rate。with TFR dropped to below the replacement level from 1990 to 1995.
