Why is china’s communist party impose the one child policy on the chinese people?

In 1979, Premier Deng Xiaoping instituted the One-Child policy as a way to control China's exploding population growth.

China had already been through one devastating famine that killed many, so the government wanted to reel in the population to ensure that China grew at a manageable pace.

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