Peng Peiyun, 95, Dies; Official Renounced China’s One-Child Policy

She was given the “hardest job under heaven”: upholding birth limits enforced by often brutal local officials. She came to support softening the policy, then abolishing it.Put in charge of imposing birth limits on Chinese couples, Peng Peiyun, a mother herself, worked to relax the policy by appealing directly to the country’s leaders.