PARIS: To see what China's one-child policy has done to the most populous country on Earth, you just have to look around you, said acclaimed filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai.
"It made me realise to what extent we as Chinese people lived through something that was completely out of the ordinary and unique in the world," Wang told AFP just before the film opened in France. When the one-child policy was first adopted in 1979,"people kind of understood" it was in the country's economic interests, Wang said, with three-quarters of the population said to support it.Finally getting rid of it four years ago was"a good thing", Wang argued, because"it allows people to be more in charge of their own lives, to have more freedom on what kind of family they want to build.
One of the country's most famous directors, Zhang Yimou, the maker of"Raise the Red Lantern", was forced to withdraw his latest film,"One Second", in February on the eve of the Berlin festival.
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