...chemical fertilizer production, the initial neglect was due not so much to any indirect 2 Mao stated: "Even If China's population multiplies many times,...In population — was not only thoroughly refuted in theory by Marxists long ago but has also been completely exploded by the realities in the Soviet...

...optimistic stance of the Party leaders was set forth in a release by the New China News Agency (NONA) on September 16, 1949, which was later included in...cannot keep pace with increases in population was riot only thoroughly refuted by Marxists long ago, but has also been completely exploded by the realities...

...thing,' all people believed it blindly. ' This is a reference to Mao's September 1949 declaration that "It is a very good thing that China has a big population," which was quoted throughout the 1950's, even while family planning was being promoted. For Bo's speech,...

...banned. A large population was said to be an asset for national economic development. In Mao's own words, It is a very good thing that China has a big population....of finding a solution; the solution is production . . . Of all things in the world, people are the most precious. Under the leadership of the Communist...

...scope of economic demand. As late as 1949, Mao was saying this: "Even if China's population multiplied many times she is fully capable of finding a solution; the solution is production" (in Fan, 1972, 70). projects. Our scientific-technological knowledge may not save us from ecological...

...the final victory over the Guomindang so clearly in sight, Mao's thoughts were recklessly expansive. "It is a very good thing that China has a big population....fully capable of finding a solution; the solution is production."30 Mao was confident that "the absurd argument of Western bourgeois economists like Malthus...

...times, she is fully capable of finding a solution; the solution is production."30 Mao was confident that "the absurd argument of Western bourgeois economists...increases in population was not only thoroughly refuted in theory by Marxists long ago, but has also been completely exploded by the realities in the Soviet...

...played a major role in the problems shaping modern China: It is a very good thing that China has a large population. Even if China's population multiplies...of Western bourgeois economists, like Malthus, that increase in production cannot keep pace with increase in population was not only thoroughly refuted...

...Malthusian argument that food production could not keep pace with population increase and maintained that, 'It is a very good thing that China has a big population....of finding a solution; the solution is production' (Mao 1969: 1400). During the first years of the PRC, the issue of population numbers was not regarded...

...until the 1970s. In 1949, Mao Zedong (who was later to embrace population control for China) said, "Even if China's population multiplies many times,...of Western bourgeois economists, like Malthus, that increase in production cannot keep pace with increase in population was not only thoroughly refuted...