1. State Statistical Bureau, The Statistical Yearbook of China in 1981, Beijing 1982.
2. Pi-chao Chen and Chi-hsien Tuan, ‘The Primary Health Care in China: Post-1978 Development’, Social Science and Medicine, August 1983.
3. Qian Xinzhong and Xiao Zhengyu, ‘An Analysis of the One in One Thousand Sample Survey of Fertility’, (Beijing: Beijing Economics College Institute of Population, July 1983). All the information from this survey used subsequently in this chapter is from the same source.
4. Dorothy L. Nortman and Ellen Hofstatter, Population and Family Planning Programs: Compendium of Data through1978, (New York: The Population Council, 1980).
5. Ibid.