To Live: China Since 1900

The movie nearing the last days of the Great Leap Forward, the people in the commune are have been working extremely hard to achieve their goal to produce steel, after the tiresome work, they going in to a mood of happiness. They start celebrating by gathering together in the canteen and having a whole fest of food to be eaten, what they do not realize is that they actually don't have as much food as they initially think they do, they are going and eating their food for the following year. During this time we had a sudden increase in the population, and these were known to decrease the food output for future generations and could effect their own children in later stages, and so on. This would hinder the progress of the nations plans to expand their economic chances and this was tackled by the one child policy, which stimulated couples to only have one child, but the problem was in the remote areas like the countryside the political messages weren't passed as well as in mainland. This eventually exemplified later by an increase in the population.