Strict birth control policies create 900 million chinese 'only children'

China’s one-child policy has created a generation of only children that now number 900 million, but most Chinese would still like to have two children if they could, a senior family planning official said today.

From the implementation of the one-child policy at the end of the 1970s through last year, some 900 million only children have been born, most in cities, said Zhao Baige, vice minister for China’s National Population and Family Planning Commission.