The population of China was 1.2 billion in February 1995, containing 22 per cent of the total population of the world. According to the United Nations medium-variant projections as assessed in 1990, the population of China would become 1.51 billion by the year 2025 and would still be larger than India, which is the second largest country and is expected to become 1.44 billion by the year 2025.
In September 1995, the World Conference on Women by the United Nations will open in Beijing. The important point at issue is reproductive health and reproductive rights, and eugenics and human rights in China. The contents of this paper are as follow:
1. Introduction-revival of sociological study of family
2. Change of the size and construction in the traditional family
3. Enlargement of the divorce and the female suicide
4. Some aspects of population statistics on Chinese women
5. The support of aged men and inheritance system
- Compared with China and Europe -
6. The lineage compared with "Dozoku" in Japanese village
7. The eugenics and human rights
8. The World Conference on Women by the United Nations