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In 1973, after decades of encouragement to have multiple children, the Chinese government told its people that population growth was a danger and that each family should have only one child. Since then, the policy has, for the most part, been stringently enforced throughout the country. Chinese women have reported being forced to abort a pregnancy or to be sterilized. The one child policy has significant impact on China’s population, as well as society. This policy really controls the population growth in China. The birth rate is declining from 16.03?in 1998 to 13.38?in 2001. And the natural growth rate also declines from 9.53?in 1998 to 6.95?in 2001. The population in China is in the close watch of Chinese PRC government and has significant result. With the great performance of controlling population growth, it has also bring some foreseeable problems. Firstly, it will greatly change the sex ratio. It is because given the longstanding pref