China instituted a one-child policy in 1979 because the government recognized that the population in the country is rapidly growing. The One Child Policy is their only solution to decrease the population growth in order to avoid getting stuck in more social and economical problems in the future brought by overpopulation.
There were changes in land ownership that affected the peasants who initially had to just feed themselves but due to the new forces they had to be indebted to the colonialist. The Indian peasants lost there land
