One child policy leads to huge gender imbalance
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Latest research shows that selective abortion in favour of males has left China with 32 million more boys than girls, creating an imbalance that will endure for decades.
The paper, published by the British Medical Journal, encourages the Chinese government to follow the example of South Korea where strictly enforced law and a public awareness campaign have successfully reduced the gender imbalance in 1990s. But other experts say to change the ideology of more than 1 billion people will take a much longer time.
Presenter: Lily Yan
Speakers: Professor Zhongwei Zhao from the Australian National Unviersity
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