Wang Feng is a demographer and member of the advocacy group who heads the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy in Beijing.

WSJ: China's One-Child Plan Faces New Fire

As they approached the studio, Wang Feng's mobile phone rang.

WSJ: China's One-Child Plan Faces New Fire

One of the academics, Wang Feng, director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Centre for Public Policy, argues that China's demographic pattern had already changed dramatically by the time the one-child policy began in 1980.

ECONOMIST: China's population

Yet Feng Xiaoyuan, Feng Bingxian and Wang Shijun, who had been on their way to becoming oil millionaires, continued to press their case.

ECONOMIST: In rural China, a private oil boom became a state-owned one