By Alan Smith

The 2010 General Aviation Forum held in Beijing.When looking at change and economic growth in China, one first has to understand what kind of nation one is looking at. Start with the sheer size of China – in fifty years, its population has increased from a bit more than 500 million to more than one billion 328 million people. This has occurred despite government laws prohibiting marriage before the age of 29 and then limiting the number of children brought into the new family to one. As one can easily figure out, those regulations were almost impossible to enforce.