Cai Hua, who was born in 1979, said,"I wish I had a sister. I prefer to have a sister rather than a brother. I have a lot of friends who have a brother and they usually fight with each other. I think it would be very funny but I would prefer to have a sister."Reuters 
ChinaHuang Zheng, who was born in 1980 said: "Yes. Of course I'd like to have a brother or a sister, because I would have someone to live and study with. If possible, I'd like to have an older sister. It's more appropriate and easier to communicate with a sister, rather than with your parents, when you're faced with some problems. I'm not saying I feel lonely. It just would make life more colourful."Reuters 
Shanghai, ChinaZhou Yu, who was born in 1981 said: "I wish I could have one brother because I am the only child in my family and while I do have lots of cousins, I'm the oldest one. So sometimes I wish I had an older brother to take care of me. Growing up, I think I missed having male role models".Reuters 
Xu Yufang, who was born in 1982 said: "I longed to have a brother to protect me, because I'm alone."Reuters 
Zhang Bowen, who was born in 1985 said: "I'd like to have a sister or a brother, because I would feel less lonely growing up."Reuters 
Zhu Wenjun, who was born in 1989, said: "Of course I want to have a brother or a sister because being a single child is so lonely. I want to have someone to play with and grow up with."Reuters 
Wang Yanrong, who was born in 1994 said: "Yes, I would like to have a brother or a sister because that would be much more fun. There are times when you don't know who to talk to and then it would be better if I had a sibling. I know a cousin who has a sibling and they have a very good relationship." Wang Yanrong, who was born in 1994, poses for a photograph in Shanghai August 16, 2014. Yanrong said: "Yes, I would like to have a brother or a sister because that would be much more fun. There are times when you don't know who to talk to and then it would be better if I had a sibling. I know a cousin who has a sibling and they have a very good relationship."Reuters 
Yang Zheng, who was born in 1996, said: "I would like to have a big brother to teach me things, take me travelling and take care of me."Reuters 
Ding Tieru, who was born in 2002, said, "I have a cousin. I'd like to have a brother. Because we would be able to play together. I want more friends. We would be able to help each other in our studies,"Reuters 
Liang Xiao, who was born in 2007,said, "I want a little sister because little brothers are naughty,"Reuters
China, the most populous country in the world with nearly 1.4 billion people, introduced its one-child policy at the end of the 1970s to curb the rapid population growth.
The policy enforced at the provincial level requires couples violating it to pay a fine, or in some cases, to undergo abortions. The one-child policy completed 36 years of enforcement on 6 October 2014.
Although the one-child policy has averted 400 million births since 1980, helping families pull out of poverty, it has become unpopular and leaders fear that the country's ageing population will both reduce the labour pool and exacerbate elderly care issues, the BBC reported.
The one-child policy has on the whole been strictly enforced, though some exceptions exist, including for ethnic minorities.
The traditional preference for boys has created a gender imbalance as some couples opt for sex-selective abortions, because of which, demographers predict that by the end of the decade, China will have 24 million "leftover men" who, because of China's gender imbalance, will not be able to find a wife.
As part of the plan to raise fertility rates and ease the financial burden on a rapidly ageing population, China relaxed its one-child policy and said it would allow millions of families to have two children.
To mark the policy's 36th anniversary on 6 October, photographer Carlos Barria asked a person born in each year since China's One Child Policy has been in existence -- from a man born in 1979, to a baby born in 2014 -- if they would have liked to have any siblings, to which most of them said yes.
