[Addition to "Chen Muhua Speaks" at family planning meeting].
The following addition supplied from Beijing Renmin Ribao in Chinese of February 3, 1980 from page 1 should be made to the article "Chen Muhua, Bo Yibo Speak at Family Planning Meeting," published in the February 4 People's Republic of China Daily Report on page L2:  Page L2, 1st paragraph, line 3:  "...in due course, so that the total population of China will be controlled at about 1.2 billion by the end of this century, in order to insure greater and faster economic development in the country and improvements in the people's living standards, and to raise the cultural level of the Chinese nation."  "Chen Muhua made this calculation:  If young people marry at age 20, there will be 5 generations in a century; but if they marry at age 25, there will be only 4.  The reduction by a whole generation of people is a matter of great importance in controlling population growth.  Besides, in his prime a youth should be wholeheartedly devoted to his study and work in order to make greater contributions to the 4 modernizations.  For this reason, for both the nation and the indivduals concerned it is profitable for citizens to delay marriages and childbirth and exercise birth control."  She was speaking...
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