<<They have had a real problem managing growth, now they will have to start managing an aging and shrinking population.
I’m pretty sure the entire goal of their one-child policy was to stifle or even reverse population growth. China, despite all the media hype, is still pretty poor and has all sorts of problems associated with overpopulation - not enough food or fresh water, too much garbage and pollution, lots of environmental destruction, crowded and dirty cities, lack of services, etc. Although cruel and immoral, throttling population growth probably prevented China from going down the same path as most African countries with their gigantic population growth and absolutely chaotic social, political, and living conditions.
Yep that was the goal and they acheived it, but the management of population decrease can be worse than increase. Who pays for the retirement of all parents and grandparents? We in the US are about to find out and that is with slight population growth.