China's Sex Ratio At Birth, Social Policy Analysis

China's sex ratio at birth has been increasing since the 1980s, and now, it has been seen 117 boys born for every 100 girls, far beyond the normal ratio of 100 females to 102-107 males. This is indeed a very serious problem. Gender Imbalance has brought out a series of problems, even a social crisis. Therefore, effective measures should be taken immediately to redress this imbalance. By analyzing current situation and characteristic of gender imbalance, the article presents its negative impact on society. We think that, under the traditional concept of valuing males over females, China's rising sex ratio at birth is linked to its present social policies, especially those of population, employment, security, education and resource distribution. Such social policies have strengthened the notion of "boy preference", therefore, they lead to gender imbalance. After revealing the relationship between the gender imbalance and the social policy, the article also points out that the social policy of gender equity is a fundamental solution to problems of the current rising sex ratio at birth, such as eliminating the sexual discrimination policy and establishing the gender equity social policy to improve women's status, helping parents get rid of the notion of "boy preference", entitled to women equal rights of participating with their male counterparts. Meanwhile, we can learn something from the foreign countries that have successful experiences in such aspect.By using social gender theory, combining quantitative analyses with qualitative research methods, on the one hand, we survey questionnaires of 143 leader cadres in order to learn theirs attitudes towards gender imbalance; on the other hand, we do some researches in a typical county to find out the deep reason of "boy preference".