The new population theory was put forward by Ma Yinchu, the former president of Peking University. It is Ma Yinchu's viewpoint on the contemporary population problem in China. 1960 65438+1October 4th, he was forced to resign as president of Peking University for publishing "The New Population Theory". Ma Yinchu (1882— 1982) is a contemporary economist, educator and demographer in China. 1882 was born in shengxian county, Zhejiang province on June 24th. 1905 was admitted to Tianjin Beiyang University majoring in mining and metallurgy. From 65438 to 0907, he went to the United States to study, and successively obtained a bachelor's degree in economics from Yale University and a master's degree and a doctor's degree in economics from Columbia University. 19 15 returned to China and worked as a lecturer and professor of economics in Peking University. 19 19 is the first provost of Peking University. 65438-0927 teaches in Zhejiang Finance School and is a member of Zhejiang Provincial Government. 1928, legislator of Nanjing government. After 1929, he served as the chairman of the Finance Committee and the Economic Committee, and concurrently served as a professor at Nanjing Central University, Army University and Shanghai Jiaotong University. 1938 became the dean and professor of Chongqing Commercial College. 1940 12.6 was arrested by Chiang Kai-shek and kept under house arrest for a long time until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. 1September, 946, went to Shanghai Private Chinese Business College to teach. /kloc-0 became the president of Zhejiang university in August, 1949, and195/kloc-0 became the president of Peking University in June, 1949. He has served as a member of the Central People's Government, deputy director of the Central Financial and Economic Committee, deputy director of the East China Military and Political Committee, member of the first and second sessions of the National People's Congress, and member of the first, second, third and fourth sessions of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (the second and fourth sessions of the Standing Committee).