CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by ScholarWorks at WMU The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare Volume 15 Article 2 Issue 1 March March 1988 Implications of the One-Child Family Policy on the Development of the Welfare State in the People's Republic of China Fernando Chiu-Hung Cheung University of California, Berkeley Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw Part of the Demography, Population, and Ecology Commons, Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, and the Social Work Commons Recommended Citation Cheung, Fernando Chiu-Hung (1988) "Implications of the One-Child Family Policy on the Development of the Welfare State in the People's Republic of China," The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 15 : Iss. 1 , Article 2. Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol15/iss1/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Social Work at ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Implications of the One-Child Family Policy on the Development of the Welfare State in the People's Republic of China FERNANDO CHIU-HUNG CHEUNG The University of California, Berkeley The one-child family policy in China, if successfully implemented, will drastically alter the population age structure in the coming years which will in turn affect the demand and supply of the welfare state. Using several population indices projected on the basis of different total fer- tility rates, it is found that the aged population will increase signifi- cantly and hence their needs for social services including social security and health care will increase accordingly.