China's population figures: can the contradictions be resolved?
In recent years, the government of the People's Republic of China has been reporting the country's population as "nearly 800 million." A variety of evidence suggests that this approximation is the best currently available in China, and that it may be some time before further, more accurate, demographic data are produced. The paper presents and discusses alternate population estimates and projections by UN, US, and USSR specialists.
The size, composition, and growth of the population of mainland China
Dr. Levy's translation of the biography of An Lu-shan in the Old T'ang History is soberly done. It is provided with a judicious, though not especially penetrating, introduction and a useful map. One's doubts are primarily concerned with the limits of the Chinese Hehchuan form and the usefulness (except as a linguistic exercise) of translating examples of it as an end in itself rather than as a part of some larger study. Ueh-chuan are not, and were never intended to be, biographies in the sense of rounded accounts of men's lives. As narratives of events they are unsatisfactory because they have to be fitted together with what appears in other parts of the histories. They are a mine of raw material to be quarried, sifted, compared with what is found elsewhere. One's aim must be to get behind them, not to present them "objectively."
A program for family planning based on maternal-child health services.

 The Population Council set up as a reference framework for a study an organizational model postulating the number of doctors, midwives, and field workers, the type and number of Maternal/Child Health (MCH) centers needed for given units of population. An extrapolation cost of providing MCH services with family planning was about 1 billion dollars for the women in the developing world. Six projects have been developed in a number of countries. Principles of operation for the delivery of family planning from an MCH base include: 1) integration of family planning with MCH; 2) size and location of project areas; 3) the target population; 4) subdivisions of target groups; 5) replicability; 6) evaluation. Evaluation of the project should provide answers to: 1) success of the program in delivering specified services, 2) results of the program in terms of health and fertility, 3) effectiveness of the program as a family planning delivery service. Programs are proposed for Indonesia (Java), Turkey (Yozgat), the Philippines (Bohol), Egypt (Behlira Governorate), Brazil (Rio Grande do Norte), and Bangladesh.
