Originally posted by Officer of Engineers
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the miracle is, apart from the 3 ys coinciding with the 'great starvation', in 1961-62 population growth returned to normal, all the way up to 1979. anyway i dont see the connection about not wanting to have children in that particular 3 yrs. and please remember that chinese do have a 'residential record' system, that no chinese could leave his hometown for more than 5 days without permission. they cant eat their meals at the local community canteen if they dont have some form of identification. in fact that system still exist today and people in china are obliged to apply a 'temporary resident permit' whenever they leave home for more than 5 days, from the local police at their destination. i dont think it'll be too difficult to count permanent residents.
besides the edited version of the census, there were however, also other original quotes from their census board which were done immediately the yr after the 1958-61 starvation. if u dont mind i hog the thread, i could look back into my old files and put up the two for comparison, with ur permission of course.
some background story: due to the fear for population loss in times of war, mao started a campaign (direct copy from the russians) call 'heroic mothers'. females who gave birth to 10 children could go and meet mao in beijing, all fees catered for. the campaigned lasted from 1950-55 (korean war).
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