China Social Media Thrashes One-Child Policy After Population Control Czar Dies

The death of a former head of China's one-child policy has been met not by tributes but by castigation of the abandoned policy on social media this week. 

State media praised Peng Peiyun, head of China's Family Planning Commission from 1988 to 1998, as "an outstanding leader" in her work related to women and children. 

The reaction on China's social media to Peng's



death in Beijing on Sunday, just shy of her 96th birthday, was less positive.

"Those children who were lost, naked, are waiting for you over there" in the afterlife, one person posted on China's popular micro-blog Weibo.

China's near-universal mandate of just one child per couple from 1980 through 2015 prompted local officials to compel women to undergo abortions and sterilisations.